On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:58:59PM -0700, Brian Marshall wrote:
Any idea why the default was changed? I guess it didn't really make
The new default was the default years ago. Then it was changed to the
ISO format output. Since then I hated it. The ISO format is wasting to
much space and is more difficult to read.
I was told, that the ISO format was chosen to make it simplier to pipe
the output to another program. Well, this is certainly true, but in most
cases I don’t use a pipe.
Luckily, --time-style=locale changed the format back to the good old ways.
It seems, upstream is now thinking again, that the localized output is
the better one.