ICal not accepting times for events

Not sure I'm on the right forum. Posted about this on the MacBook forum but haven't gotten a response there.
iCal recently stopped accepting times for me. When I go to enter an event there is space for only two digits in the time field. I assumed the numbers entered would be for the hour. When the event is entered, however, it turns out that the hour is always 07 and the number entered in the two-digit field is used as the minutes value.
The calendar is not much use to me this way. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

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