Problem with time formats

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Problem with time formats

My Date & Time formats on the International window read am/pm. The time suffix on the menu bar reads am/pm (eg. 12:34 pm).
Yet when I insert the time on a Pages word processing document, the suffix is always AM or PM.
I do not want capitalisation. I want lower case. How can I change this annoying default setting on Pages?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.5), eMac running OS 10.3.9

Posted on Oct 18, 2008 7:08 PM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

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Oct 19, 2008 6:09 AM in response to Jack Benlow1

As far as I know, the two strings are defined at system level, not in Pages.

It's an other annoying behavior.

We define am & pm in the Preference pane but the beast continue to use AM & PM.
We define every date format to display year with four digits but the beast continue to default to a two digits year.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 19 octobre 2008 15:09:57)

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Jack Benlow1 Author

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Oct 19, 2008 3:31 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

And yet...
I have used Appleworks WP for several years without this problem, so how can it arise at system level?

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Answer 3

KOENIG Yvan

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Oct 20, 2008 3:22 AM in response to Jack Benlow1

I didn't wrote that AppleWorks grab the strings from the system 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 20 octobre 2008 12:22:38)

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