My MacBookPro 13", OS X.6.7 is confused about what year it is.

In the Date & Time section of the prefs, the little panel changeable 
by the up/down arrows, gives the date as 11/04/09, i.e. the 11 April 
2009 - that's the (sensible!) way we Australians generally write 
dates.

I cannot change the "09" in the panel although I can change both the 
day and the month.

BUT in the calendar page immediately below, it gives the correct date 
-- 11 April 2011.

WRONG DATE -- 09

When I look at files, documents and apps, in Column View in the 
Finder, I get the Creation, Modified and Last Viewed (or used in the 
case of apps) with 09 dates.

In iPhoto I get the same, unalterable, 09 affixed to photos in both 
the short and extended information panels.

CORRECT DATE -- ANYTHING FROM 2002-2011

In the LIST view in Finder I get the correct modification date -- 
which shows the 09 is appearing whether the actual date is before or 
after 09.

The drop-down menu at the top of the Finder's menu bar gives the 
correct date, 11 April 2011.

Insert > Date and Time > Current Date in NWP gives the correct date.

In iPhoto, the dates given in the thumbnails part of the window are 
correct and when I export the photos to applications that read the 
EXIF data, the dates are correct.

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This has been going on for some time. I noticed it a while back in 
iPhoto but didn't think to look at the Date & time prefs. While I 
have Column view set in the Finder nearly all the time, the only time 
I take notice of the file dates is when I want to sort by date and 
then I switch to List view, where the dates given are correct.

Does anyone have a clue about what is going on here?

Cheers, geoff

Geoffrey Heard
Business & Environment Writer, Editor, Publisher
The Worsley Press