make due date format administratively configurable

I have had a concern raised about the date format for the due date field in Crucible. In my locality, we are used to a MM/DD/YYYY date format. When you pick a date from the date picker it inserts it into field in a DD/MM/YYYY format. What may be worse is if a user manually types a due date in MM/DD/YYYY format giving unexpected results. I would like to suggest that the date format should be configurable by an administrator but the default should remain DD/MM/YYYY.