On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 21:17, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > * 2010-05-29 20:25 (-0700), Brian Marshall wrote: > >> Recently, I noticed that the date format in the output from "ls -l" >> has changed in squeeze. Before, it used the ISO standard (2010-05-29 >> 20:00) but now it's started printing "May 29 20:00" or "May 29 2009" >> if it's not the current year. > >> I suspect it's coreutils' fault, because while the version of the >> locales package is about the same in Ubuntu and Debian (2.11 and >> 2.10), coreutils is significantly newer in Debian (8.5 compared to >> 7.4). >> >> Can anyone else confirm this issue? Is it a bug or a feature? How can >> I get ls to print the ISO date format again? > > Yes, the default has changed. You can change the default with TIME_STYLE > environment variable, like this: > > export TIME_STYLE=long-iso
I almost missed this thread, but it's a good thing I didn't. I had been using LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 to get ISO format, but at some point that stopped working, and I couldn't figure out what had happened. And I have to agree with Camaleón and Ron that the ISO format is a lot less confusing. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilia09sgraps3uverrqchcj7ugkp0hlovpgn...@mail.gmail.com
