How can I change US dates to UK?

I am in the UK, so Numbers expects dates to be in UK format.
When working with accounting downloads from my PayPal account the dates are obvioulsy in US format (and no, I can't seem to get PayPal to change that). Numbers then gets the dates all mixed up, interpreting those it can as UK dates and leaving the rest as a text string.
How can I either reformat the dates to UK or get Numbers to read them as US dates?
Thanks.

Hi Ralph,
The file delivered by PayPal has this format:
"11/23/2012","06:16:46"
so, yes, the raw data is in US date format.
I would be interested to learn how you know that. Are you able to open your PayPal account in a text editor?
I have tried opening CSV (Comma Separated Values) files in Numbers, and of course Numbers uses the commas to separate the data into different columns. Then manipulates as Numbers thinks I want.
It might also be better if I could get it to open the file in text format and not automatic - is that possible - to give me the chance to them manipulate the contents before Numbers tries to alter it.
I agree.
Either that or some routine that will switch the mm/dd numbers over to UK format.
This is a clunky, long workaround, but having solved it once, Save As Template for the next time.
If you can open your PayPal account as plain text, (and I don't know how to do that) there is a way to manipulate the month and day.
Option 1. LEFT function.
Do all the PayPal dates have the same number of digits (mm/dd/yyyy)? For example, April 30 2012 (US date order) shown as 04/30/2012 and May 1 2012 shown as 05/01/2012.
Then is it possible to separate (to other columns) the month and day components of the date with the LEFT function, and then recombine them (in another column) in the UK date order.
Option 2. FIND function.
Does PayPal show dates without leading zeroes? For example, April 30 2012 (US date order) shown as 4/30/2012 and May 1 2012 shown as 5/1/2012.
An added problem! Now we need to FIND the positions of the first and second slashes in the date string. Then we can use the LEFT function to separate the components of the date by the postions of the slashes. And as above, place them in different columns before recombining in the UK date order.
Rule Britannia!
Ian.

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