screwed up dates

My friend called the other day, and had this weird problem in his email app. The apple mail, to be precisely.

For some reason, all emails had the same date on them. And not only that, they also had the same exact time stamped on them. Weird. First I thought it was a setting, or some specifics with the mail app. Maybe a preference setting, or something underlying in the setup. But no.

Then I tried to reinstall his email, and do it again. But to no avail. The same problem popped up, even though the email app, was in an entirely virgin state. I logged in to his gmail account, and saw that the dates there, was right and cool. So finally I narrowed it down to being a system wide setting.

If you ever HAVE this problem.

1. Go to system preferences.

2. Click "international".

3. Click "formats"

4. Make sure that the Region is not set to "custom" but to the specific country, where you reside.

That's it. Email back to normal :) Juhu!