Re: [h-e-w] UK date format in Dired

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:50:41 +0000
> From: "Graham Smith" <address@hidden>
> 
> Does Emacs32w control the date format in Dired?

It should.

> I have two different approaches to changing the date format..
> 
> (setq ls-lisp-format-time-list
>        '("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M"
>          "%d-%m-%Y      "))
> 
> 
> or
> 
>  '(dired-listing-switches "-alD --time-style=locale")
> 
> neither of which are having any effect on the date format which is currently
> year month day, and I want it day month year.

The latter one is not supposed to work, as Emacs on Windows doesn't
use `ls' the external program, but rather uses the emulation in
ls-lisp.el.  Modifying ls-lisp-format-time-list should work, unless
there's a bug.