On Friday 23 October 2009 09:23:31 PaulNM wrote: > The problem is the date info sometimes switches from the time of day to > the year or the other way around. This messes up the diff, so it shows > a bunch of changed files when there havn't been any changes. > > EX: > < drwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 20 13:38 Recipes > --- > > > drwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 20 2009 Recipes From the SUSv2 description of the 'ls' utility: The <date and time> field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall be the equivalent of the output of the following date command: date "+%b %e %H:%M" if the file has been modified in the last six months, or: date "+%b %e %Y" (where two <space>s are used between %e and %Y ) if the file has not been modified in the last six months or if the modification date is in the future, except that, in both cases, the final <newline> produced by date shall not be included and the output shall be as if the date command were executed at the time of the last modification date of the file rather than the current time. From the manpage for GNU 'ls': --time-style=STYLE with -l, show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale, +FORMAT. FORMAT is interpreted like `date'; if FORMAT is FORMAT1<newline>FORMAT2, FORMAT1 applies to non-recent files and FORMAT2 to recent files; if STYLE is prefixed with `posix-', STYLE takes effect only outside the POSIX locale Please use the available documentation before consulting the list. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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