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MacOS Monterey Version: 12.4 (21F79)

So since doing a massive jump in updates, finder is no longer showing dates correctly, all I get is at. Also if I go and "Get Info" on the file you see the same, all the dates show as at.

MacOS Finder with Date Columns showing at Get Info for a file, showing at as the date

If I go to the Console App, and look at any of the options with a date, all it shows is a ,.

Console App showing , as the date

So now to the things I've tried:

  • SMC Reset
  • PRMA/NVRAM Rest
  • Disk Repair (Disk Utility First-Aid)
  • Re-install (without erasing data)

Any and all help will be very much appreciated.

UPDATE: Tried to re-index with spotlight, but no difference

Using the command GetFileInfo shows the correct data

TEAL-C02ZR0G2MD6W:tmp:$ GetFileInfo com.PM2.err
file: "/private/tmp/com.PM2.err"
type: "\0\0\0\0"
creator: "\0\0\0\0"
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/17/2022 15:25:09
modified: 05/17/2022 15:25:24

Doing a stat on the file also shows the correct information:

stat com.PM2.err
16777222 170309676 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrianbrowning wheel 0 4006 "May 17 15:25:09 2022" "May 17 15:25:24 2022" "May 17 15:25:24 2022" "May 17 15:25:09 2022" 4096 8 0 com.PM2.err
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    I’ve got my first Mac installing 12.4 now. Will test. Do you have a common date format selected - support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh27073/mac
    – bmike ♦
    Commented May 17, 2022 at 16:31
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    @bmike - Thank you! That was exactly what the issue was. It was set to a "Custom" variant, now it's back to the standard
    – gingacodemonkey
    Commented May 17, 2022 at 21:08
  • If you can answer your question with a screen shot, I’ll vote that up too +1. That picture will help others I am sure know this got answered.
    – bmike ♦
    Commented May 17, 2022 at 21:21

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Reset to default
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So thanks to @bmike and his suggestion to check the Language & Region settings I found the culprit.

Language & Region Settings

The Preferred Language was United Kingdom (Custom). With all of the Date fields being empty.

Language & Region Settings > Preferred Language > Advanced > Dates

After resetting to the default United Kingdom settings, and now everything is now back to normal!

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    I’ve seen some rumblings that other apps / panels lost settings like this. Do you think you made these changes intentionally or the system dropped these unexpectedly / recently? (Excellent, excellent post - thanks for all the details!)
    – bmike ♦
    Commented May 18, 2022 at 9:23

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