Dates in VB 6.0 !!!!

I had developed a custom date control which accepts dates in the way I wanted. Now the problem is that the software will be running on multiple computers & each have their different settings for the dates (i.e. mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy) now I want input in form of only dd/mm/yyyyy so when the system date is 19th Feb, 2007 then the software & even VB can convert it into 19/02/2007 (using Format(Date(), "dd/mm/yyyy"), but when the system date is 5th June, 2007, neither software nor even VB can understand in which format the given date is.........

How to solve this problem...........

How to determine the System Date is in which format (dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyyy)

Please help me out.......................

I am ready to use APIs, but pls help me

Thanx to all readers & very much thanx to all repliers.