At 4:37 PM +0100 3/12/06, alexandre wrote: >hi >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? Go back to System Preferences. Choose Date & Time. There, choose the "Clock" tab (to the right of "Time Zone" in the tab bar). In the Clock section, you can uncheck "Show AM/PM". Daly