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Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format



On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
 
> From SUSv3:
> "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"
... 
> Of course, SUS basically ignores any locale other than "POSIX" or "C", 
> but there is rarely a good reason to be different in other locales.

One reason would be that '%b %e  %Y' makes sense only to Americans >:-)

Regards,
Andrei
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