> Cc: "Graham Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > From: Stephen Leake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:30:13 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ;; Use traditional time format in the C or POSIX locale, > > ;; ISO-style time format otherwise, so columns line up. > > > > 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). > > Perhaps ls-lisp could fill the locale time string with spaces to make > the columns line up; that would be more friendly.
Patches are welcome, but please note that there be dragons: for example, some Windows locales don't define abbreviated month names, and instead produce full names. Whatever code you have in mind should deal with such locales as well.
