On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:17:31AM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2010-05-29 20:25 (-0700), Brian Marshall wrote: > > > Recently, I noticed that the date format in the output from "ls -l" > > has changed in squeeze. Before, it used the ISO standard (2010-05-29 > > 20:00) but now it's started printing "May 29 20:00" or "May 29 2009" > > if it's not the current year.
> Yes, the default has changed. You can change the default with TIME_STYLE > environment variable, like this: > > export TIME_STYLE=long-iso Thanks, this works. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:21:31AM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Here's a better link which points to the Debian Reference manual: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/debian-reference.en.html#_customized_display_of_time_and_date Thanks for the link. Any idea why the default was changed? I guess it didn't really make sense to change the date format based on whether it was an ISO-8859 or UTF-8 locale? (en_US.ISO-8859, to my knowledge, has always used the date format that en_US.UTF-8 is now using.) Brian
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
