Damn . How badly does it affect your daytoday activities ? <| sep |> This is up to the developers , not Sony . <| sep |> In that case ? No problem . Let the whiskey battle begin ! <| sep |> I ' am a statistics programmer . That means I mostly program data mining solutions with SQL or R . Every programmer at least in EU knows how hard it is sometimes to parse dates . You have to make sure if its in format of DD . MM . YYYY or MMDDYYYY or god bless in standard format of YYYYMMDD everybody should use this one all the time . But I have used hours trying to figure our why one conversion just didn ' t work . It turned out that some dates were in format MM . DD . YYYY and some where in MM . DD . YYYY notice the trailing white space . Sometimes I just hate user inputs in text fields .