24 Hour Clock setting? Mail/iCal doesn't report/accept this format.

Hi guys,
I am traveling a lot these days so to simplify my life, at least so I thought, I based all of my calendars around a 24-hour GMT schedule. Needless to say was not welcomed by my fellow American's and loved apps Mail & iCal. (iChat/Adium misbehave, too.)
I've set my clock 24hour, my timezone to GMT, and have been ignored by iLife. They continue to report AM/PM and its has made organization that more difficult. I would go back to EST/12hour, but dang-it this should be easy.
TIA for feedback/help!
-Jonathan

Answering my own post: In the iCal forum there was an answer which helped somewhat. I've managed to tweak my International Preferences to get iCal to report in 24hr time, but Mail is still acting weird.
Anyone have a simple/easy way to make all of the date/times in the same format? I get 0010, 00:10 and 01 Jan 2007 and 01 January 2007. Its nitpick at this point, but any help is appreciated.
-Jon

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2012-07-13 09:21:08,734 com.apple.AddressBook.SourceSync: com.apple.Dataclass.Mail
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2012-07-13 09:52:24,576 helpd: Couldn't find a URL for file named redirect.html in bundle at path /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/Mail.help. Removing HPDBookAccessPath from the Info.plist dictionary.
2012-07-13 09:52:24,577 helpd: Couldn't find a URL for file named redirect.html in bundle at path /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/Mail.help. Removing HPDBookAccessPath from the Info.plist dictionary.
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