Per comments on the ProveIt talk page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ProveIt_GT&action=historysub
mit&diff=406711599&oldid=405951902
"When using cite web and a few others the tool automatically fills in the
accessdate using the form "2011-01-08" when the full written form is preferred
i.e., "January 8, 2011" or "8 January 2011". See, e.g., the example accessdates
in the documentation for {{cite web}} and {{cite news}}, the examples at
WP:CITET, or the retrieval dates in today's featured article. There is a
possible WP:ENGVAR issue if you default the style to January 8, 2011 over 8
January 2011; someone down the line might say "hey, why are you choosing for us
the middle endian form over the little endian form" and so on, but anyone can
change this and there are manifestly more articles written by people who would
naturally choose month day year over other formats. Ideally, though, the tool
would recognize the date format at the start of the article and choose the
accesdate format from that example and, if not present, would default to the
most common format.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:43, 8 January 2011 (UTC)"
Original issue reported on code.google.com by kurt.luther on 10 Jan 2011 at 1:11
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
kurt.luther
on 10 Jan 2011 at 1:11