In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JoeB
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> The LS -L command will display the long info about files
> in a directory. FBSD 4.0 through 4.5 LS -L command would
> display among other things the month/day/year the file
> was created. FBSD versions 4.6 and 4.7 displays the
> hour:minute the file was created in the year field instead
> of the year. To me this looks like there is a bug in the
> routine that populates the file's creation date field upon
> creation of the file and the LS -L command is just displaying
> what it finds in the year field which has been populated
> with incorrect data.
>
> I am looking for confirmation of my interpretation of the
> problem from other FBSD users, before I submit PR on it.
I don't think you're looking far enough into the past. The time is
displayed if the file was created in the last year. Otherwise, the
year is displayed.
I don't believe that this behavior has changed recently, and couldn't
find anything in the CVS logs indicating that it had.
<mike
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