Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:
> The basic idea is to use a 1-day
> window, not the 6-month window of the POSIX locale.  So the posix-iso
> output would look like this instead:
> 
>    $ ls -l .plan .profile today
>    -r--r--r--    1 eggert   eggert        386 1981-07-14 .plan
>    -r--r--r--    1 eggert   eggert       4012 2001-11-20 .profile
>    -rw-rw-r--    1 eggert   eggert          0   16:10:01 today
> 
> This would conform better to ISO 8601, because it would avoid the
> nonconforming "MM-DD" notation that bothers Mr. Haible and Mr. Kubota.
> Also, it saves one precious print column.  I would like to hear
> reactions to this idea.

Fine with me. This output doesn't upset a German speaker.

Still you need to make a special case for the C locale, because POSIX
specifies the "ls" output detail in that particular situation (not
very interesting for non-English humans).

Bruno