> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:50:41 +0000
> From: "Graham Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Does Emacs32w control the date format in Dired?
>
> I have two different approaches to changing the date format..
>
> (setq ls-lisp-format-time-list
> '("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M"
> "%d-%m-%Y "))
>
>
> or
>
> '(dired-listing-switches "-alD --time-style=locale")
>
> neither of which are having any effect on the date format which is currently
> year month day, and I want it day month year.
Ah, I see the reason now. Look at this part of the doc string of
ls-lisp-format-time-list:
(defcustom ls-lisp-format-time-list
'("%b %e %H:%M"
"%b %e %Y")
"*List of `format-time-string' specs to display file time stamps.
They are used whenever a locale is not specified to use instead.
See the last sentence? it really means what it says, as the code in
ls-lisp does this:
;; Use traditional time format in the C or POSIX locale,
;; ISO-style time format otherwise, so columns line up.
(let ((locale system-time-locale))
(if (not locale)
(let ((vars '("LC_ALL" "LC_TIME" "LANG")))
(while (and vars (not (setq locale (getenv (car vars)))))
(setq vars (cdr vars)))))
(if (member locale '("C" "POSIX"))
(setq locale nil))
(format-time-string
(if (and (<= past-cutoff diff) (<= diff 0))
(if locale "%m-%d %H:%M" (nth 0 ls-lisp-format-time-list))
(if locale "%Y-%m-%d " (nth 1 ls-lisp-format-time-list)))
time))
And since the Windows port of Emacs always sets "LANG" to the current
Windows language identifier, we end up never using the value of
ls-lisp-format-time-list, but always use the ISO format instead.
The comment above says it's a feature: it makes the columns line up,
which would not be guaranteed if we used the localized format (since
the length of localized month names could be anything).
