On 20091023_124045, PaulNM wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Friday 23 October 2009 09:23:31 PaulNM wrote: > > > The problem is the date info sometimes switches from the time of day to > > > the year or the other way around. This messes up the diff, so it shows > > snip > > > From the SUSv2 description of the 'ls' utility: > > The <date and time> field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp > > Thanks for telling me about SUSv2. I've installed susv2 and susv3 now > and will look them over. > > > > From the manpage for GNU 'ls': > > --time-style=STYLE > > I was well aware of this option, the problem was that the time display > seemed to be changing randomly, even when the options were unchanged. > The ls manpage makes no mention whatsoever about date/time field changes > based on how old the timestamp is. > > That "feature" should really be mentioned in the man page, or at least a > pointer to more information. > > These scripts have been running for months now, and periodic google > searches didn't find anything except references on how to format > date/time field. > > Thank you though, I've made some changes to the scripts that hopefully > will fix it. > > PaulNM
For use in scripts, I have found it worthwhile to simply override the whole recent vs older stuff with a single format of my own choosing. I like "--time-style=+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S". I tried "--time-style=+%s" for a while. It is more compact, but much harder for a mere mortal to understand. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
