[juven14]

That is just how they do it in the UK, lol. I always tease my relative there about these kinds of things.

5-10-2006 = d-m-y

I'll let Maffo address how you can change this. I suspect you can just use the smarty date format to change this but I don't have time to look at the template just now, playing catch up with all I've missed this am.