Works for me too, sorry. By the way, you know that you don't need to type the zeroes, don't you? 1/1/1972 is the same as 1-1-1972, 01/01/1972, 01-01-1972, 1972-1-1, 1972-01-01 (ISO 8601) etc.
For me, all those resulted in 1-jan-72 in your example. Johnny Andersson
