On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 09:23:31 PaulNM wrote: > > The problem is the date info sometimes switches from the time of day to > > the year or the other way around. This messes up the diff, so it shows
snip > From the SUSv2 description of the 'ls' utility: > The <date and time> field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp Thanks for telling me about SUSv2. I've installed susv2 and susv3 now and will look them over. > From the manpage for GNU 'ls': > --time-style=STYLE I was well aware of this option, the problem was that the time display seemed to be changing randomly, even when the options were unchanged. The ls manpage makes no mention whatsoever about date/time field changes based on how old the timestamp is. That "feature" should really be mentioned in the man page, or at least a pointer to more information. These scripts have been running for months now, and periodic google searches didn't find anything except references on how to format date/time field. Thank you though, I've made some changes to the scripts that hopefully will fix it. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
