bug#24473: [PATCH] ls: fix %%b format and precompute more

2016-09-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
All looks good to me. thanks! Pádraig

bug#24473: [PATCH] ls: fix %%b format and precompute more

2016-09-19 Thread Paul Eggert
The old code mishandled --time-spec='+%%b', as it misinterpreted the '%b' as being the month abbreviation. Also, it mishandled the extremely unlikely case of a month abbreviation containing '%'. The performance part of this patch sped up 'ls' by about 1% on my little benchmark of 'ls -lR' on the