Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format
* 2010-05-29 22:58 (-0700), Brian Marshall wrote:
> Any idea why the default was changed?
No idea. Indeed, I think long-iso would be better default for this kind
of technical dates which are shown in tabular form. With fi_FI.UTF-8
locale the output of "ls -l" is difficult to read because the width of
the date column is not fixed. In practice TIME_STYLE=locale is not
usable at all (with "ls -l").
$ LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8 TIME_STYLE=locale /bin/ls -l /
total 101
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 30.1. 21:55 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 25.5. 20:33 boot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 16.8.2009 cdrom -> media/cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4200 30.5. 07:30 dev
drwxr-xr-x 122 root root 12288 30.5. 09:52 etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 1.5. 22:13 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 16.8.2009 initrd.img -> [...]
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 12288 23.1. 16:23 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 16.8.2009 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 30.5. 06:58 media
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 16.8.2009 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16.8.2009 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 124 root root 0 30.5. 06:58 proc
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 9.5. 13:58 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 11.3. 20:16 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16.9.2008 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 16.8.2009 srv
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 30.5. 06:58 sys
drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 16384 30.5. 10:37 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 16.8.2009 usr
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 16.8.2009 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 16.8.2009 vmlinuz -> [...]
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