Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

[Daniel Barclay <daniel@fgm.com>]

Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
...
> > That's why the ISO date formats are numeric:  As long as one uses
> > [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system
> > is], one can read the ISO date format.
>
> Only if you know, it is ISO date format. Using the name for the month 
> does not make things more complicated with the exception of parsing the 
> output with another program.

Yes, it does make things more complicated:   That other program has to
have 12 month strings--and then one set of 12 for each language that
might need to be recognized.

Daniel