Cannot see or edit time of events in iCal

I cannot see or edit times in iCal any longer, only dates. This affects only one user, so I guess that there is a corrupted user-specific resource file somewhere that I could try renaming/deleting. Does anyone have any ideas?
I believe that this condition was triggered by creating an iCal event from Mail.
More details and a screenshot at http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=8110912&postcount=10
Thanks for any hints/suggestions.

Eventually found in System Preferences -> International -> Formats that my region was set to "Custom". I have no idea how this happened - I certainly never set this directly through system preferences.
I selected "United Kingdom" as my region, and the times showed up in iCal once again.

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