Paste date in strings in format of mm/dd/yy to Numbers

I have trouble to paste a list of dates in the format of mm/dd/yy into numbers. For example:
04/01/10
04/23/10
After pasting into Numbers, I got:
2004-01-10
04/23/10
How can I paste a list fo date strings in the format as they are?

Check your system's date_time setting .
I guess that it is :
yyyy/mm/dd
On my French system, it is dd/mm/yyyy
so, when I paste your values a I get :
4 janv. 2010
04/23/10
the 1st one is deciphered reversing the day and the month.
The 2nd remain a string because there is no month #23.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 23 avril 2010 10:39:07

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