On Tue, July 17, 2007 08:10, Ian Malone wrote: > On 17/07/07, Pete Geenhuizen <pgeenhuizen@pobox.homeunix.net> wrote: >> On Tue, July 17, 2007 07:36, Karl Larsen wrote: > >> > If it loads it is good I thought. I looked at man ls and it seems >> > to be the same one from FC6 so far as I can see. What you show is the >> > same thing from FC6 and F7 the difference being the date. On FC6 you >> get >> > a USA standard date. On F7 you get the European date and that looks >> > different. Both are accurate I think and I like the looks of the F7 >> line >> > better :-) >> I'm not disputing it's accuracy. >> I checked the man pages. >> I didn't ask for, didn't select, nor do I live in Europe, no offense, >> but I >> have no interest in European time display. >> >> None of you suggestions or comments address my question, and if I >> preferred >> the f7 output I wouldn't have brought it up, I obviously prefer the old >> listing which has been that way in every Unix version that I've worked >> on >> for the past 25 years. > > It's been suggested that you alias ls or look at LC_TIME. > I'd just like to point out 2007-07-17 is ISO, not European > format; in full the European format would be 17th July 2007. Correct you are, sorry. Yeah I could alias it and format it, but why should I have to? The question is why the change, and there has to be an easier way that mucking with an alias to format the output. > <http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm> > > We should really just throw away all ambiguity and > stick with seconds since epoch. (Bad idea.) Mebbe, but then we'd need calculators and programs to give us the human time. Sigh > > -- > imalone > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <a href="http://www.mailscanner.info/">MailScanner</a>, and is believed to be clean.