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I'm impressed by this really comprehensive task description. What's described there is exactly what happens internally. Thanks a lot for putting so much work into this!
Dates written as 9/7/2017 […] are interpreted as […] MM-DD-YYYY.
This describes the current situation. We do have a chain of half a dozen date parsers. There is one that checks if it can find one number that is greater than 31 (that must be the year), and an other number between 13 and 31 (that must be the day). This parser ignores punctuation. The last parser takes punctuation into account because slashes are a hint at the American format MM/DD/YYYY, while all other punctuation characters typically hint at DD.MM.YYYY.
This is not an error. I'm afraid there is nothing I can do here, and have to close this ticket as invalid.
Note that we want to take the users language into account when parsing dates. We are working on code that will allow us to do so. This is already tracked in about a dozen other tickets (see T87764).
Cc: daniel, Lydia_Pintscher, thiemowmde, Izno, Aklapper, agray, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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