In Date/Time did you uncheck show AM PM? Do you have an 'added time or date utilities' running that might be conflicting? Jens On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:37 AM, alexandre wrote: > i re-installed my system after ma hard drive died last month. since > then, everything (desktop, iApps) uses "am" & "pm" instead of a 24 > hour clock (as before). i've gone through all the system > preferences (time & date, international) but i can't get rid of > them. am i missing something?