Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-08 Thread H. S.
Just saw your message by chance. I read this list only on gmane. Replying to ML now. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Doesn't the scanning software at least set the digitization time to the > time at which you scanned the photos in? Yes, it does. But that is of no use to

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 10:28 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 2

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stephan Seitz wrote: ... That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date format. Only if you know, it is ISO date format. Oh, also: Yes, but the ISO date format is fairly ea

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 10:28 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 0

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stephan Seitz wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date format. Only if you know, it is ISO da

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 iun 10, 15:44:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Of course, SUS basically ignores any locale other than "POSIX" or "C", > > > but there is rarely a good reason to be different in other locales. > > > > One reason would be that '%b %e %Y' makes sense only to Americans >:-) > > In

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Erwan David
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/01/2010 03:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>> From SUSv3: >>> "The field shall contain the appropriate date and >>> timestamp of >>> when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall >>> b

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 15:23:11 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > From SUSv3: > > "The field shall contain the appropriate date and > > timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the > > field shall be the equivalent of t

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 03:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: From SUSv3: "The field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall be the equivalent of the output of the follo

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > From SUSv3: > "The field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp > of > when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall be the > equivalent of the output of the following date command: > > date "+%b %e

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: For me dd mmm is very clear ... Even when the month abbreviation is in a language you don't know? Then I can always use „env LANG=C ls -l”. That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 30 May 2010 00:58:59 Brian Marshall wrote: > 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

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 iun 10, 10:58:09, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >For me dd mmm is very clear ... > > Even when the month abbreviation is in a language you don't know? I think in such a case the output of ls will be the lesser of my problems ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic di

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread H.S.
On 01/06/10 12:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.JPG > > It reads the date/time stamp from a pic's Exif header and then renames > the file. ...... Not applicable if there is no exif data in the photo file ... fai

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 10:18 AM, H.S. wrote: On 31/05/10 05:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: Besides, I also tend to name the files and folders as "2010-05-31_filename" and so on, they keep my mind (and my computer) in a very well organized fit :-) Totally agree. This is one of the main uses of ISO date format

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread H.S.
On 31/05/10 05:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > Besides, I also tend to name the files and folders as > "2010-05-31_filename" and so on, they keep my mind (and my computer) in a > very well organized fit :-) Totally agree. This is one of the main uses of ISO date format that I routinely take advantag

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/30/2010 05:51 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can you tell if these files were created 5th marc

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrei Popescu wrote: For me dd mmm is very clear ... Even when the month abbreviation is in a language you don't know? That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date form

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2010 01:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 01:51:14 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 18:05:43, Camaleón wrote: (...) This way I have to think *less* to be sure about the date. No guessing. You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date form

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 31 May 04:39 -0500, Camaleón wrote: > Worst is that, inside my company, there are people still using just two > digits for the year, something like "31/05/10" (it reads 31st May, 2010). > Woow, sir, for sure is confusing (I ask them, "hey, what will happen in > year 3010? >:-)") and th

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 May 2010 12:07:54 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 31 mai 10, 06:39:15, Camaleón wrote: > >> And that is precisely the gain of the ISO date format over the rest of >> the other alternatives: nodoby has to ask -or guess- "what your locale >> is" in order to correctly interpret the

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 31 mai 10, 06:39:15, Camaleón wrote: > > > > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg > > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg > > > > Can you tell if these files were created 5th march or 3rd may? How (I'd > > really like to know)? > > You go

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 May 2010 01:51:14 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,30.May.10, 18:05:43, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> This way I have to think *less* to be sure about the date. No guessing. > > You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format > is used. Let me see... > > -rwx

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 05:51 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can you tell if these fi

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 06:21 PM, Brian Marshall wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:51:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can you tell if these files were created 5th march or 3rd may?

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:52:52AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,30.May.10, 16:21:26, Brian Marshall wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:51:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg > > > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,30.May.10, 16:21:26, Brian Marshall wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:51:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg > > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg > > > > Can you tell if these files were created 5th

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,30.May.10, 12:04:47, Brian Marshall wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:44:38AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > In any case if locales were the reasoning, pt_PT.UTF-8 oughta be "30 > > Mai 2010" or something when it's actually just a translation from > > english, "Mai 30 2010". > > That lo

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:51:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg > > Can you tell if these files were created 5th march or 3rd may? How (I'd > really like to know)? I've n

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,30.May.10, 18:05:43, Camaleón wrote: > The usual representation is very fuzzy. Look: > > s...@stt008:~$ locale | grep TIME > LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8" > > s...@stt008:~$ ls -l > total 1 > drwxr-xr-x 9 sm01 sm01 728 may 29 22:22 Desktop > drwxr-xr-x 9 sm01 sm01 240 may 16 16:13 Documentos > d

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 21:17, 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 2

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:44:38AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > In any case if locales were the reasoning, pt_PT.UTF-8 oughta be "30 > Mai 2010" or something when it's actually just a translation from > english, "Mai 30 2010". That looks like a bug in the pt_PT.UTF-8 locale. de_DE.UTF-8 gets it

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 May 2010 13:22:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/30/2010 01:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> This way I have to think *less* to be sure about the date. No guessing. >> >> > Proof of your brilliance is that you think just like me! Oh. I'll take that as a "compliment". (He, he... ju

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 01:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010 18:59:47 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 09:19:03, Camaleón wrote: Having an option to change the default is very good, but ISO date representation is there precisely to avoid the date localization madness, Why "madn

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 May 2010 18:59:47 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,30.May.10, 09:19:03, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Having an option to change the default is very good, but ISO date >> representation is there precisely to avoid the date localization >> madness, > > Why "madness"? IMHO the *default* ou

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 11:23 AM, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:58:59PM -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: Any idea why the default was changed? I guess it didn't really make The new default was the default years ago. Then it was changed to the ISO format output. Since then I hated it. The I

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:58:59PM -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: Any idea why the default was changed? I guess it didn't really make The new default was the default years ago. Then it was changed to the ISO format output. Since then I hated it. The ISO format is wasting to much space and is mo

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,30.May.10, 09:19:03, Camaleón wrote: > > Having an option to change the default is very good, but ISO date > representation is there precisely to avoid the date localization madness, Why "madness"? IMHO the *default* output should be easy to understand by the user and a localized date m

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 30 May 2010 10:44:38 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > In any case if locales were the reasoning, pt_PT.UTF-8 oughta be "30 > Mai 2010" or something when it's actually just a translation from > english, "Mai 30 2010". Erratum: American or American English. English English is also not represented

ISO date format (was: ls has stopped using the ISO date format)

2010-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 May 2010 13:01:25 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2010-05-30 10:44 (+0100), Nuno Magalhães wrote: > >> +1 for ISO as default > >> Is there a way to push things into changing back? > > Use TIME_STYLE=long-iso or contact the GNU coreutils upstream. It seems not working for Midnight C

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 11:17 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: [snip] Yes, the default has changed. You can change the default with TIME_STYLE environment variable, like this: export TIME_STYLE=long-iso Another method is the --time-style option. For example: $ alias dir='ls -aFl --time-style=+"%F %T"'

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-05-30 10:44 (+0100), Nuno Magalhães wrote: > +1 for ISO as default > Is there a way to push things into changing back? Use TIME_STYLE=long-iso or contact the GNU coreutils upstream. First search their mailing list archives for related discussions: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bu

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:19, Camaleón wrote: > Having an option to change the default is very good, but ISO date > representation is there precisely to avoid the date localization madness, > so I for one would also expect as default the using of ISO date standard. +1 for ISO as default In any

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:04:59 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,29.May.10, 22:58:59, Brian Marshall wrote: >> >> 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

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-05-29 22:58 (-0700), Brian Marshall wrote: > Any idea why the default was changed? No idea. Indeed, I think long-iso would be better default for this kind of technical dates which are shown in tabular form. With fi_FI.UTF-8 locale the output of "ls -l" is difficult to read because the widt

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,29.May.10, 22:58:59, Brian Marshall wrote: > > 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

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-29 Thread Brian Marshall
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 prin

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-05-30 07:17 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote: > Related tips here: 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 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. > I

ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-29 Thread Brian Marshall
Hi all, 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. My locale, which hasn't changed in years, is en_US.UT