Applescript date parsing has changed

Question

i have been using a script i wrote 7 years ago to convert a string in mm/dd/yyyy format to an a/s date object, and as of last week it was working perfectly.
tonite i just tried it and "11/05/2012" is parsed as 11may rather than 5nov...something changed the a/s parser's fmt...i suspect the xcode update i just did whenever it came out...
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Answer 1

yes, and apparently the xcode updte CHANGED MY LOCALIZATION SETTINGS without telling me:-P
i've fixed the problem by avoiding a/s string2date coersion(what i shoulda done in the 1st place)-:
-- dtp = [yyyy,mm,dd,hh,mm,ss]
set dt to (current date)
set day of dt to 1
set year of dt to ((item 1 of dtp) as integer)
set month of dt to ((item 2 of dtp) as integer)
set day of dt to ((item 3 of dtp) as integer)
set hours of dt to ((item 4 of dtp) as integer)
set minutes of dt to ((item 5 of dtp) as integer)
set seconds of dt to ((item 6 of dtp) as integer)