Re: tweaking default `ls -l` output to use locale before posix

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 26 September 2005 01:55 am, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> >> But before we go off the deep end here, why exactly is this change a
> >> good idea?
> >
> > the idea is to make the default output as intuitive as possible ... imo,
> > defaulting to one's locale time format instead of a POSIX one makes more
> > sense ... but i wouldnt be suprised if others felt differently :)
>
> I should emphasize again, though, that the current coreutils default
> is not "a POSIX one" in the sense that you may be thinking.

right, i was just referring to it as "a POSIX one" so as to easily 
differentiate between the current behavior and the new behavior i'm proposing 
of defaulting to one's locale style
-mike