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Re: Linux config question: dates don't display year?



On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:34:49AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:

> OT disclaimer... what controls the standard date abbreviation? On some
> Linux systems 'ls -l' displays the year, on others it doesn't. 'finger'
> duplicates the behavior, so it appears to be some heinous system-wide
> setting.

A search of newsgroups using the keywords "ls -l", "date" and "time"
will provide better explanations than I can give.  Adding "six months"
would narrow down the search.
 
> BTW: I've found the --full-time option for ls, but still want to know
> how to set default behavior.

How about an alias in your .bashrc?

alias ls="/bin/ls --full-time".

Brian.



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