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Re: ls default time style

From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: ls default time style
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:05:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Programs that wish to parse "ls" output should call in the POSIX
>> locale.
>
> I believe Paul was referring to Dired in Emacs, in which case your advice
> is hard to follow: Emacs both displays the `ls' output _and_ parses
> it,

It could call ls in the POSIX locale and then reformat the
easily-parsed date in the local hard-but-unnecessary-to-parse format.


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