I originally experimented with fixing this bug, but never commented back
here.  My fault.

This should not have been fixed.  We can reliably format a date into a 
locale-specific display string.  But as far as I recall, there is no way to 
either:
A) Programatically format a locale-specific display string back into a date
B) Or programatically query what the locale-specific display string breaks into 
(i.e. is "%x" really "%y-%m-%d"?)

So if we show the data in the locale-specific way, there's no way to
parse it back again, when the user edits the text box.  This merge has
made it so that when the user tries to manually edit the date box, it
will screw up the date.

I've filed bug 1149696 about this.

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  Date setting in the preferences should be not be shown in ISO format

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