title: ActiveRecord date format
body: <p>I've run into a spot of bother with date formats in our Rails application.</p>
  
  <p>I have a date field in our view which I want to be formatted as <strong><em>dd/mm/yy</em></strong>. This is how the user will expect to enter their dates, and the datepicker control uses this format.</p>
  
  <p>However, Active Record seems to be expecting <strong><em>mm/dd/yy</em></strong>. </p>
  
  <p>If I enter <strong><em>01/03/2010</em></strong>, this gets put in as <strong><em>03 January 2010</em></strong>.</p>
  
  <p>If I enter <strong><em>25/03/2010</em></strong>, this gets put in a <strong><em>null</em></strong>.</p>
  
  <p>How do I get ActiveRecord to expect Her Majesties date format?</p>