Glad it worked for you. Richard On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:00 PM, alexandre wrote: > richard > > in system prefs, i went into "international" where i had a custom > set-up in the "format" tab (based on swiss french). i re-selected > "swiss-french" and automatically everything switched to 24-hour: > iCal, iTunes, desktop. cool! > > thanks, > > alexandre