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It seems all of my emails in the mail.app have suddenly been stamped with dates that use the day of the year, rather than day of the month, i.e:
37 February, 2011, instead of 6 February, 2011.
This date format appears in both the Viewer Window and Message Headers, and is seen in both sent/received dates, on all saved/new messages (all the way back to a few from 2001) and in both of the mail.app accounts I use: one straight-up gmail, the other a worldshare.net address, also using the Gmail server.
This behavior is not present when reading through webmail, nor is it a problem on my iPod Touch.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.

It was all in Language and Text pref pane. I was pulling day of year, rather than day of month.
Big ups to ibook_Steve over at MacNN!

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