These are international forums, but they use the American date format, even for logged in members. There's no option to change that.
If there are enough requests like this, they might consider changing it. But for the moment you have to live with it.
I just looked at the CNET UK forums to see if they happen to have an UK date format, but http://www.cnet.co.uk/forums/ tells me those don't exist any more.
Kees
With a mixture of US and European date formats on the Internet, I really dislike being forced to use the US format. How can I set Cnet to use the European format when I access forums? There is nothing in my profile that I can find.
How can I talk directly to Cnet about this?

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