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Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date) |
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Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:31:51 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:05:20 +0100 (CET)
> > $ ls -l .plan .profile today
> > -r--r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 386 1981-07-14 .plan
> > -r--r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 4012 2001-11-20 .profile
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 16:10:01 today
>
> Fine with me. This output doesn't upset a German speaker.
OK, but we still have the problem that (under the most recent
suggestion) a file that is only a few seconds old might have
yesterday's date, which is disconcerting for night owls.
Is there an good single-character notation standing for either
"yesterday" or "today"? That would address this problem. I looked
through ISO 8601 and couldn't see a standard, so perhaps we could use
"-" for yesterday and space for today. We could limit the "-
HH:MM:SS" notation to time stamps that are both within yesterday and
within the last 24 hours; that might provide a nice visual cue too.
For example, if it is 2001-12-21 17:30, you might see this output:
$ ls -lrt
-r--r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 386 1981-07-14 .plan
-r--r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 4012 2001-11-20 .profile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert eggert 127 2001-12-20 yesterday-older
-rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert eggert 12 - 18:10:01 yesterday-newer
-rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 13:05:59 today-past
-rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert eggert 134 2001-12-21 today-future
> Still you need to make a special case for the C locale,
Yes; I've been assuming that all along. GNU 'ls' does this already.
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", (continued)
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Miles Bader, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Miles Bader, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Jarc, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Miles Bader, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Bruno Haible, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date),
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Jarc, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/22
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/23
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again, Markus Kuhn, 2001/12/23
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/24