appt messes with format of dates in diary

[Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu>]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin, X toolkit)
 of 2003-08-27 on w-eng-226-249.public.utexas.edu
configured using `configure  powerpc-apple-darwin --prefix=/sw --with-x --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --without-gif '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib''
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:


If I load the package appt, the format of diary entries is changed to

"Dec 8, 2003"

from my preferred 

"8 Dec 2003" 

as given by (setq european-calendar-style t)

This is annoying, and I'm not sure how to fix it.


Here are all the settings that I use that I think might
be relevant... maybe I'm missing something?

(require 'appt)
(setq appt-issue-message t)
(setq appt-message-warning-time 1)
(setq appt-display-interval 1)

(setq diary-file "~/.diary.txt")
(setq european-calendar-style t)

As a further frustration, new appointments that I add *to the diary
file* during the course of the day do not appear as appointments.  I
don't know if this is a bug or not; it seems to be a bug (maybe
related to the issue mentioned above). Maybe my configurations are
relevant?