02-05-2016
You are on a good path.... date -d is pretty good of decoding things. But the format mm-dd-yyyy isn't one of them. However, the US style mm/dd/yyyy is interpreted ok.
Obviously there is some ambiguity depending on region and personal taste.
Maybe you should suggest the format? Maybe the ISO guys got it "right"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
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