How to change MySQL date format for database?

Question

We are using a MySQL database with FileMaker. It appears that when FileMaker is reading the MySQL tables, it will only accept dates in the format of m/d/y.

Is there

Answer 1

I don't think you can, see Changing MySQL's Date Format.

There are system variables called date_format and datetime_format that look promising, but if you try to set them, you'll get an error, and the documentation say they are 'unused'.