On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:58:31 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:18:15 +0000 > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know the story behind the apparent change in default 'ls' output > > on Debian - at least compared to all of the other Linux (and Unix) systems > > I have used? > > > > The difference I am referring to is the date format used when the > > '-l' option is used. > > > > For example, "ls -ld ." on the following systems produces: > > SuSE: > > drwxr-xr-x 50 digbyt digbyt 8192 Feb 6 17:28 . > > Gentoo: > > drwxr-xr-x 40 digbyt digbyt 4096 Feb 8 14:35 . > > BSD/OS > > drwxr-xr-x 2 digbyt digbyt 14848 Feb 9 02:05 . > > Solaris: > > drwxr-x--x 16 digbyt staff 1024 Jan 28 08:31 . > > But on Debian: > > drwxr-xr-x 22 digbyt digbyt 2048 2006-02-09 01:55 . > > > > I know I can produce the traditional format using > > ls -l --time-style=locale > > and the default seems to correspond to > > ls -l --time-style=long-iso > > > > But why has what I thought was a standard install produced a different > > default to all the other systems I have tried, and how do I change this > > default system wide (not just my personal account)? I really want the > > change to Debian to be as invisible as possible to normal users... > > I don't know the answer to your questions above, but you can always put an > alias in /etc/profile which is the global profile for all bash shells. > > alias ls='ls --time-style=locale' > > should do it. except that most local users will have a different alias for ls set in .bashrc.... i had the same phenomona here... my locales were set to en_US .. I had problem upgrading locales lately... but #export LC_TIME=POSIX , or LC_ALL=POSIX, fixed the problem you are having (in my current xterm)... i'd say check your locales, mine seemed to have changed too. > > A > > > > > Regards, > > DigbyT > > -- > > Digby R. S. Tarvin > > digbyt(at)digbyt.com > > http://www.digbyt.com > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
