Aired Date - US date format only?

Is there a way of showing +Aired Date+ in a date format other than the US one?
US date formats are very confusing and catch you out if you are used to the eminently more sensible DD/MM/YYYY format.
This is particularly annoying when tagging content for the Apple TV with Meta X or Subler, as you have to remember to put the first to two parts of the date in backwards.
I've never understood the US date format as it doesn't flow properly - ie. smallest/bigger/biggest -(the US one is oddly bigger/smallest/biggest)!

{quote:title=Chenks wrote:}
out of interest, how many countries other than UK use the "UK format" for dates? it's probably the UK that is being different to everyone else (just like driving on the left)?{quote}
FYI here is a list of countries using DD/MM/YY formatting for dates:
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria (using dots (which denote ordinal numbering)
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany (using dots (which denote ordinal numbering)
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Hong Kong (in English)
Honduras
Iceland
India (dd.mm.yyyy in Bengali; dd-mm-yyyy in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil; d-m-yyyy in Telugu, no leading zeroes used)
Indonesia
Iraq (dd/mm/yyyy)
Ireland (dd-mm-yyyy)
Israel (dd/mm/yyyy)
Italy
Jamaica
Jordan
Kazakhstan (dd.mm.(yy)yy)
Kenya (dd/mm/yyyy)
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Latvia
Lebanon
Libya
Luxembourg(dd/mm/yyyy in French, d.m.yyyy in German)
Macau (in Portuguese & English)
Macedonia (dd.mm.yyyy)
Malaysia
Mexico
Montenegro (d.m.yyyy)
Morocco
Netherlands (using hyphens as in “dd-mm-(yy) yy”, very often "d month (yy)yy")
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway (d.m.y; the fraction form d/m-y is common, but incorrect)
Oman
Pakistan (dd/mm/(yy)yy)
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines (in Filipino)
Poland (dd.mm.yyyy, often with dots as separators; more official is d <month in genitive> yyyy, or, less frequently, d <month in Roman numerals> yyyy)
Portugal
Qatar
Romania (dd.mm.yyyy)
Russia (dd.mm.(yy)yy)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saudi Arabia (dd/mm/yyyy in Islamic and Gregorian calendar systems, except for major companies, which conventionally use the American mm/dd/yyyy format)
Serbia (d.m.yyyy)
Singapore (English)
Slovakia (d.m.yyyy, some use of dd-mm-yyyy)
Slovenia (d.m.yyyy or d. mmmm yyyy)
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden (as d/m yyyy, although the yyyy-mm-dd form is more common and the national standard.)
Switzerland (dd.mm.yyyy)
Syria
Tajikistan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Thailand (with Buddhist Era years instead of Common Era)
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan (dd.mm.(yy)yy)
Ukraine (dd.mm.yyyy; some cases of dd/mm/yyyy
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom - YAY!
Uruguay
Uzbekistan (dd.mm.yyyy Cyrillic, dd/mm yyyy Latin)
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Here is a list of countries that use MM/DD/YY:
Belize
Canada (Although most official government documents use the yyyy-mm-dd format, the mm/dd/yy format is also understood due to influences from the United States.)
Federated States of Micronesia
Palau
Philippines (when written in English)
United States (civilian vernacular: mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy; other formats, including dd Month yyyy and yyyy-mm-dd, are common or prescribed—particularly in military, academic, scientific, computing, industrial, or governmental contexts.)
I always find it interesting just how the US proscribe something as being a 'Standard' when what they really mean is that it is way the US does it. In the same way as English is referred to as 'International English' and American English is just called English by American corporations
/rant
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