Re: tweaking default `ls -l` output to use locale before posix

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 16:00, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> > havent heard a peep yet about coreutils-5.3.0 since we last spoke ... so
> > either there are no problems or no one has noticed ;)
>
> OK, I've installed it in the trunk.  (Maybe we'll get some peeps there....)

hmm, sorry to dig up this old thread, but what about users with english 
settings ?  coreutils provides no en.po/en.mo file for them (since there is 
nothing to translate), so for these guys, the code will now always trigger 
the fallback check which jumps to the long iso time format ...

$ LC_ALL=en_US LANG=en ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 198 root root 69632 2006-04-19 23:06 /tmp
$ LC_ALL="C" LANG="" ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 198 root root 69632 Apr 19 23:06 /tmp
-mike