On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:45:09PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For the way ls(1) should display the dates, SUSv3 says:
> 
> | The <date and time> field shall contain the appropriate date and
> | timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the
> | field shall be the equivalent of the output of the following date
> | command:
> | 
> | date "+%b %e %H:%M"
> | 
> | if the file has been modified in the last six months, or:
> | 
> | date "+%b %e %Y"
> | 
> | (where two <space>s are used between %e and %Y ) if the file has not
> | been modified in the last six months or if the modification date is in
> | the future

Bah, how did that get into the standard....
(Mandating the existing behaviour without deciding whether anythig else
is actually more sensible.)

If a file has a timestamp that is in the 'near future', you need to know
how far into the future it is, so need the hours and minutes.

> 
> Our ls(1), however, displays dates for files that are less than six
> months in the future as normal:

Seems sane to me...

FWIW the behaviour of ls was changed in rev 1.20...


	David

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