[Storyboy]

Here's a new one, for me anyway:

It seems all of my emails in the mail.app have suddenly been stamped with dates that use the day of the year, rather than day of the month, i.e:

37 February, 2011, instead of 6 February, 2011.

This date format appears in both the Viewer Window and Message Headers, and is seen in both sent/received dates, on all saved/new messages (all the way back to a few from 2001) and in both of the mail.app accounts I use: one straight-up gmail, the other a worldshare.net address, also using the Gmail server.

This behavior is not present when reading through webmail, nor is it a problem on my iPod Touch.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[ibook_steve]

System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Formats tab.

Click Customize in the Dates section and make sure you drag "Day of month" not "Day of year" to the 4 different fields.

Steve

[Storyboy]

Thanks, Steve. So simple, and yet so maddening. I changed this back when I installed Pages. Who can know all that might happen when a butterfly flaps its wings?

Thanks, again.