Fedora 7 date display in ls -al

[Todd Denniston]

Todd Zullinger wrote, On 12/19/2008 09:41 AM:
> Denise.Agosti at dana.com wrote:
>> I have a Fedora 7 install in which the date displayed by default in
>> an "ls -al" command as follows:
>>
>> -rw------- 1 root     root       6582 2008-12-19 04:25 maillog
>>
>> On other Fedora and RedHat versions, the date is displayed by
>> default as follows:
>> -rw------- 1 root   root    1105372 Dec 19 08:38 maillog
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me if there is there a way to change the way
>> the date in the "ls -al" command is displayed in Fedora 7 so that it
>> is the written month and numeric day as is the usual display?
> 
> You could use the --time-style option to specify any format you wanted
> or you could set LC_TIME=C, which will get you the POSIX locale
> format, which is like your latter example.
> 

or if you just want a fairly consistent full output of time on files use 
--full-time which is "like -l --time-style=full-iso".



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