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Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format



On Sun,30.May.10, 16:21:26, Brian Marshall wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:51:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > -rwx------ 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg
> > -rwx------ 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg
> > 
> > Can you tell if these files were created 5th march or 3rd may? How (I'd 
> > really like to know)?
> 
> I've never heard of a yyyy-dd-mm format. All the other formats usually
> put the year at the end, and if they don't, they're probably using
> slashes or something else instead of hyphens. That's sufficient to
> distinguish the ISO format from the rest, I think.

Sure, but I can't tell for sure unless I read strftime(3) or so...
For me dd mmm yyyy is very clear, but I don't like the suppressing of 
the current year either :(

Regards,
Andrei
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