From Wikipedia:
In English-language <safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language>
outside North America (mostly in Anglophone Europe and some countries in
Australasia), full dates are written as 7 December 1941 (or 7th December 1941)
and spoken as "the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one" (exceedingly common
usage of "the" and "of"), with the occasional [my emphasis] usage of December
7, 1941 ("December the seventh, nineteen forty-one"). In common with most
continental European usage, however, all-numeric dates are invariably ordered
dd/mm/yyyy.
From this I infer that \language[en] or \language[en-gb] should format dates
normally in day-month-year order, reserving mont-day-year for \language[us]
i.e. language[en-us].
But in ConTeXt both \language[en] and \language[en-gb] produce the us ordering
for \currentdate. I would be pleased if ConTeXt could be changed to the above
mentioned normal behaviour for english. That is [en] and [en-gb] produce the
day-month-year order and that [us] and [en-us] month-day-year.
dr. Hans van der Meer
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