Simply because different regions of the world use different date layouts. There isn't any date format that is a reasonable built-in default.
I don't agree. yyyy-mm-dd is the ISO (8601) standard. http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html
It is used, among others, in the XML Schema date type and for database representation.
* USA: mm-dd-yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy * Europe/Pacific: dd-mm-yyyy
(In Sweden, which is part of Europe for those who don't know, we rarely use dd-mm-yyyy)
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