Fedora 7 date display in ls -al

[Dunc]

Denise.Agosti at dana.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Denise
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You need to add an alias to your .bashrc (in your home dir)

something like

alias ls='ls --time-style="+%b %e %H:%M"'

should do it

Dunc