Re: ls -l --time-style, configure recent interval

[Pádraig Brady]

On 29/12/2019 19:58, Mike Miller wrote:
> On 2019-12-28 08:15, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Often TIME_STYLE is configured in an env var,
> > so we'd probably have to have a separate var to
> > config that, which isn't ideal.
> >
> > I wonder could we auto set the "recent" limit
> > based on the resolution of the format provided?
> > I.E. If you specify %a, use a week as the recent threshold?
>   >
>
> Thanks.  I think that could work, though it would probably surprise people.
>
> This led me to thinking, what about another parameter to the time-style param?
> Looks like it is currently newline delimited.  Perhaps a third line could hold a
> time threshold?  A bit odd (due to delimiter) but compact in terms of variables
> and backwards compatible.

I did consider that, but unfortunately a
subsequent line is currently disallowed rather than ignored:

$ \ls -l --time-style=$'+%Y\n%d\n12345'
ls: invalid time style format ‘%Y\n%d\n12345’

cheers,
Pádraig