On 08/31/2016 09:36 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Not necessarily. ls hardcodes its default representation for files > younger than 6 months to: > > "%b %e %H:%M" > > while date hardcodes its default representation to: > > nl_langinfo(_DATE_FMT) >
Except that I just tested, and nl_langinfo(_DATE_FMT) for both Cygwin and Linux is %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y so something else weird is going on. Oh duh, it's locales! nl_langinfo() is locale-specific, and you are (probably) running in a default locale of en_US rather than the C locale. $ date Wed, Aug 31, 2016 9:39:55 AM $ LC_ALL=C Wed Aug 31 09:43:42 CDT 2016 So, the answer to your question is determined by what your locale thinks is the appropriate representation; and I have no control over whether Windows' locale defaults will match glibc's locale defaults for en_US or any other locale outside of C. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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