Ah, cheers for the reference chrisw, ISO 8601 bring up another format...
 
 So we now have:
 
 22.09.05
 22/09/05
 22 Sep 05
 2005-09-22 (ISO 8601 - International Standard Date and Time Notation)
 
 I'm in agreement with Crunchy.
 
 Anyone bored yet??
 
 [Edited on 22-9-2005 by NBs996]