On 2006-01-07 20:01:25 +0100 (Sat, Jan), Holly Bostick wrote: > Willie Wong schreef: > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick > > squawked: > > > >> (how do you get ls to also include the @#$%#$ *year*??) > > > > > > Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think it is > > assumed that ls will display the year only for files older than a > > year old. Quite clever, in my opinion. > > OK, I see what you mean-- or maybe I don't: > > I see that many files that are more than a year old then are followed by > the year, but some are not, and some which are less than a year old are > followed by a year. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 motub somegroup 1661 jul 13 13:52 more_what works.txt > (this must have been created in 2005) > > but this file is less than a year old and is still fully dated: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 motub somegroup 581 jan 31 2005 computeruniverse_rma.txt > > But even leaving aside the inconsistencies (only for the purposes of > this discussion), this is not the behaviour I expect or in fact desire. > I normally expect the year to be displayed whenever the current calendar > year is different from that associated with the file-- thus, if the file > was created in 2006, I would not expect the year to be shown, but if it > was created in 2005, I would expect the year to be shown, whether or not > the current date was one year or more from the month and day that the > file was created.
It's a matter of taste, but I would rather keep this historical behaviour. On January the 1st you would see tiestamps from yesterday similiar to the 'very-old-ones'. > Rather than go off on a rant, I will ask mildly: is there any way to > change the default behaviour to more reflect my expected behaviour? Not > so much asking you to tell me how to do it as asking if those of you who > have already read man ls whether there is a solution to be found when I > have the time to read it myself. info ls, section * Formatting file timestamps:: " A timestamp is considered to be "recent" if it is less than six months old, and is not dated in the future." and further: " For example, `--time-style="+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"' causes..." HTH -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by "grep -i virus $MESSAGE"
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