In <[🔎] AANLkTinS-QFS4h+LazyfnJMNB9FxrgAqcTympkVZ0Obu@mail.gmail.com>, Albretch Mueller wrote: > ls -lR > > but not all timestamps are formatted the same. You get them as, say, >"Mar 24 2004", but also as "Dec 26 09:55" (without the year!) and they >are (or seem to be) files in the same directory > > Why would that be? From the Single Unix Specification version 2: "If the -l option is specified, the following information will be written: "%s %u %s %s %u %s %s\n", <file mode>, <number of links>, <owner name>, <group name>, <number of bytes in the file>, <date and time>, <pathname>" "The <date and time>, field will contain the appropriate date and timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field is 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" (where two space characters are used between %e and %Y) if the file has not been modified in the last six months or if the modification date is in the future, except that, in both cases, the final newline character produced by date is not included and the output is as if the date command were executed at the time of the last modification date of the file rather than the current time. When the LC_TIME locale category is not set to the POSIX locale, a different format and order of presentation of this field may be used." -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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