On Tue, July 17, 2007 08:12, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > Pete Geenhuizen wrote: >> On Tue, July 17, 2007 07:36, Karl Larsen wrote: >>> Pete Geenhuizen wrote: >>>> I just started noodling around with F7, on my second install, and I'm >>>> sure that initially, but not positive, in an ls -l listing the file >>>> time stamp was as it has always been. >>>> >>>> Either I missed it or the recent update of coreutils has changed the >>>> time stamp display in a long listing of ls. Is it me or has anyone >>>> else also noticed this change. >>>> >>>> This is what I mean, notice the date format >>>> fc6 >>>> $ ls -lad /etc >>>> drwxr-xr-x 154 root root 12288 Jul 17 00:44 /etc >>>> >>>> now in f7 >>>> $ ls -lad /etc >>>> drwxr-xr-x 108 root root 12288 2007-07-17 04:28 /etc >>>> >>>> If it's me can someone enlighten me what the fix is or is this a bug? >>>> >>>> Thx >>>> Pete >>>> -- >>>> This message has been scanned for viruses and >>>> dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and >>>> is >>>> believed to be clean. >>> I don't detect any virus from your email Pete. Why did you install F7 >>> twice? >> Because I might have more than one computer perhaps? >> >>> 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. > > I noticed the difference too. Good so it isn't me. Out of curiosity, did you notice if F7 has always been this way or is it as a result of the recent coreutils update? I use something like this to get the old > formatting back: > > alias ls="ls --time-style=$'+%b %_d %Y\n%b %_d %H:%M'" Thanks saves me nutting it out, and works like a charm. It's hell when you are stuck in a rut. > > -- > Sjoerd Mullender > > -- 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.