In https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.i18n/+bug/677650, @mgedmin reported:
I've a zope.schema.Date field in a z3c.form. It accepts dates like
but rejects dates like
with an error of "The datetime string did not match the pattern u'M/d/yy'."
This is rather unfriendly; the date is clearly unambiguous and should be accepted.