When using a date formatted question type in questionnaire, users receive a error stating the date format is incorrect

After a date is entered in the questionnaire on the date question, when the user saves the answer and move to the next question they receive this error message The date entered: 1/10/1999 does not correspond to the format shown in the example.

There is a message next the date box that shows they would like the format to be Use the year-month-day format, e.g. for March 4th, 1945: 1945-03-04

But it seems that the format that field is requiring is mm/dd/yyyy but when it saves the date it is putting the answer in dd/mm/yyyy format.