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. -- 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