Yes, the international standard is indeed YYYY-MM-DD and if separated by hyphens as shown, there can be absolutely no confusion.
There are two "confusions" here. One is whether or not the date format can be mis-read (for example, some people see "08-12-2004" as being today, while others see it as a date several months from now). That is not an issue with YYYY-MM-DD (technically, it could be confused with YYYY-DD-MM, but nobody is known to use that format). The other type of confusion is understanding what you are looking at. Someone in the U.S. is likely to see "Received on: 2004-08-12" and think that it is some code.
But, why can Declude not simply use the setting in Windows? Then everyone can use their own for their specific locality.
Because the Internet is global, and only an extremely small percentage of Internet users have ever not connected to computers in countries that use a different date format. That's why we're encouraging the international-friendly date format. I think that adding code to make it easier for people to support a confusing non-standard isn't worth the time. :)
-Scott
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