Is 'YYYY-MM-DD' not valid for SQL Server?

Tibor's blog is not out of date and shows that we can not safely use dashed format for datetimes.

SET LANGUAGE british

SELECT CAST('2013-12-25' AS date);

SELECT CAST('2013-12-25' AS datetime);

GO

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