First of all: Thanks John for implementing the html5 date, looks much nicer than the previous thing.

One wish: In roundup we always had the international date format YYYY-MM-DD and it now (at least in my test instance) has mm / dd / yyyy which is a format not understood in german-speaking countries (the traditional format there is dd.mm.yyyy) so can we have the international format back as the default? I guess this *is* configurable?

Concerning re-implementing date using python's datetime: I think this is a good idea but hard to get right so that no code changes are necessary, for example I'm using date.Date('.') a lot for the current date. And I'm not sure we have test cases for all these special effects of date.Date :-)