Crystal Reports report date prompt in mm/dd/yyyy order

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     Greetings,

I have a date prompt for my report.  If I declare the prompt type to be a date I get a calendar option.  If I declare the prompt a string then I lose the calendar option.

I like the calendar option, but I want to enter my date in the format mm/dd/yyyy.  Entering the date yyyy/mm/dd is foreign to everyone's thinking and fingers.

I have gone to file/options/fields/date/date and set the date format option to 'system default short format'.  But, the parameters entry field continues to want the backwards date.

I understand that the data in the tables is in yyyy/mm/dd format and I can work around this with mid statements to flip my entered date for comparison purposes.

Is entering a parameter option in the mm/dd/yyyy order possible?

Thanks,
Rich