Paul Eggert <[email protected]> skribis:

> On 02/23/2015 01:28 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I suspect this isn’t needed.
>
> This is needed so that 'ls -l' can output a date format suitable for
> the current locale.  These formats aren't part of glibc and so are not
> in glibc's LC_TIME information.  The default formats for the C locale
> are "%b %e  %Y" for older files and "%b %e %H:%M" for newer files, but
> the formats differ in other locales (e.g., Dutch uses "%e %b" instead
> of "%b %e").

I see, thanks for the explanation.

Ludo’.



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