Thanks for weighing in on this issue, and i will post a thread for themebuilders. If i bought a European sim card, would it still work on the AT&T network here, with a European date format? By the way, thanks for that link you sent me, but i have absolutely no idea how to use it. I keep thinking that the change format is somehow embedded within the OS. Anyway, i'm too stubborn(and too Irish) to give up.