Re: ls : date and time format

[Jim Meyering]

Jungshik Shin <address@hidden> wrote:
| I'm writing to suggest that the date and time output format of
| ls has to be tailored for each locale. Currently, ls uses
|
|    fmt = "%b %e  %Y";
|         (for 6month or older files at line 2229)
|    fmt = "%b %e %H:%M";
|        (for recent files at line 2233)
|    fmt = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y";
|        (if --full-time option is used : at line 2216)
|
| I think different locales have different date and time format.
| For instance, in ko_KR locale the following three formats
| are much more appropriate:
|
|     "%Y. %m. %e"
|     "%m. %e %H:%M"
|     "%x %H:%M:%s"

Thanks.  I've just made this change

        * src/ls.c (print_long_format): Wrap the --full-time' date format
        string in _(...), so it too may be internationalized.
        Suggestion from Jungshik Shin.

The other two were changed last month, as you
can see in the latest test release:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0.31.tar.gz