I just realised I can add birthdays to my address book entries. So I merrily typed in one, 06/12/1978 (for here in the UK we do DD/MM/YYYY), and Address Book now says: 12 June 1978.
In the “Formats” tab of the International Preferences, it says:
Friday, 2 January 2004
2 Jan 2004
02/01/2004
My region is set to United Kingdom.
Why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why can’t Apple just GET THIS RIGHT? I’m forever finding irritating bugs like this in the core applications they ship with OS X.
On the plus side, I’m finally able to sync with my Nokia 3650 now, having completely erased everything that was on it and done a clean sync. Now I just need to tidy up the address data that I merged with David using Address-o-Sync – which, by the way, rocks.
Currently listening to Smile to the World from the album On Your Side by Magnet
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