Wrong timestamp on videos

Over the last few days, my wife's iMac C2D (currently with OS 10.4.10) started reading the time stamps on our camera's AVI videos wrong. When the import screen comes up, the time stamp on all the pictures are correct, but the time stamp for the videos are about 7 hours ahead (and they all show the same wrong time). Interestingly, Image Capture shows the same erroneous times (so it does not appear to be an iPhoto-specific issue). Creating a new iPhoto album and creating a new user account does not fix the problem (so it does not appear to be a preference issue).
However, my MacBook reads the time stamps correctly (so it does not appear to be a camera/SD card issue). Also, the Finder reads the time of the video file correctly as well.
Given the pattern above, I suspect that there is some resource that OS X uses to read video metadata, and it must be corrupted. I have no idea what that resource might be or how to fix it.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

Usually this is caused by a custom setting of the time date format - in your time preferences set your time display to the default standard display and see if that clears the problem - if it does you can play with getting back to the custom one and see
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