TUAW Tip: Apple Mail needs some help with non-US formatted dates

UK-based TUAW reader Russell Copus wrote in to tell us about his problems scheduling an iCal event based on email text. When he selected "Your shopping will be delivered on 07-11-2007 between 21:00 and 23:00" and tried to Create new iCal Event from that text, Leopard created a calendar event for July 11th, 2007.

So to check this out, I went ahead and mailed the same text. After receiving the letter, I then selected it and choose Create New iCal Event. Sure enough, it also created the July 11th date.

Next I popped over to International settings and selected the Formats tab. There I switched from using US date formats to UK ones. To do this, I selected United Kingdom from the Region: pop-up menu.

Upon returning to Mail, I once again created a new iCal event using the same letter. This time it created the proper iCal appointment in November rather than July.