Language and Region Date Preferences not working

Date set up is for UK (day/month/year), whichever format I use for cells in Numbers, it's aways MM leading.
I tried everything on 2 separate machines and it's not working on both. What am I doing wrong ?

Mirage.za,
You could try using a Custom Format.
Also you could send Apple feedback about this if you want: https://www.apple.com/feedback/numbers.html
Hope that helps,
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