Chris Jackson <[email protected]> writes: > Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> ~ >> ... or ls not properly displaying them in some cases. >> ~ >> I got this compressed file that seems to be the metadata snapshot of >> a file system you get by running: >> ~ >> ls -lR >> ~ >> but not all timestamps are formatted the same. You get them as, say, >> "Mar 24 2004", but also as "Dec 26 09:55" (without the year!) and they >> are (or seem to be) files in the same directory >> ~ >> Why would that be? > > > Under the C or POSIX locale, timestamps which are near to now are shown > with the time and without the year; those well removed show the year, > but not the time. I'm not sure of exactly how far into the future or > past the cutoff point is. This is generally useful to human readers but > a pain for automated parsing. With GNU ls, you can pass --full-time or > --time-style=<various options> (see the ls man page for details); > alternatively stat can be useful. Other locales may vary.
You can also use the same options in the environment variable TIME_STYLE. -- Carl Johnson [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
