Having just received my new state of the art Bold 9700, I am totally gob-smacked to find out that there is no option to change the default (& totally illogical American convention of mm/dd/yy) for the date format.
Palm has allowed this for many years. RIM is a Canadian company. Surely they understand that most members of the planet understand that 02/04/2009 is actually 02 April 2009 and not 04 Feb 2009.
Better yet, if we all adopted the yyyy/mm/dd convention we would all know exactly what date 2009/04/02 is meant to be.
Please RIM. Consider the thought that your user base needs to be able to program their device to speak their native language English, Chinese,whatever but not necessarily American. (This is not intended to be an anti-American rant; it's just that the American conventions are peculiar to a minority of the world's population and should not be imposed oin every user wanting oone of these devices.)
-evan
