Re: ls produces random output

[Andreas Schwab]

Andrew D Jewell <address@hidden> writes:

> My apologies for what must be a stupid question.
>
> When I use 'ls -l' the date field sometimes appears in this form :
> Dec 30  2004
> and sometimes in this form :
> Dec 30 08:49
>
> ls seems to choose randomly, and will choose differently for each run.
>
> What am I missing, and how do I get it to always use the second form above?

You seem to have problems with clock skew, *note (coreutils)Formatting
file timestamps::.

Andreas.

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