Change in ls -l time stamp display?

Christian Menzel christian.menzel at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 12:00:28 UTC 2007


Hi Pete

On 7/17/07, Pete Geenhuizen <pgeenhuizen at pobox.homeunix.net> wrote:
> 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?
>

The format of the timestamp display depends on the settings of the
LC_TIME variable.
Look into /etc/sysconfig/i18n for your current setting.

Chris




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