Re: UK date format in Dired

[Graham Smith]

Tim,

Thanks for this, I don't know which version of ls I am using, but I am running emacsW32, and maybe this has modified some aspect of this. I have now asked across on its support forum about it.

The "setq" code suggested in the help doesn't make any difference :-(

Indeed, although its a bit confusing with recent files, I think I might just stick with the ISO date format, and come back to this when I know more about emacs.

Thanks again for your help.

Graham

On 27/01/07, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:

"Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to get Dired to show dates in UK format.  I have added a line to
> .emacs to show the diary dates in European format, but cannot find any instructions
> to change the format in Dired.
>

This probably depends on whether your using the elisp version of ls or the ls
that is installed on your system (the one which would be called in a shell).

If your using the elisp ls emulation, check out ls-lisp-format-time-list. I use
the ls-lisp function rather than the native ls program because I also like
dired to list directories first.

,----[ C-h v ls-lisp-format-time-list RET ]
| ls-lisp-format-time-list is a variable defined in `ls- lisp.el'.
| Its value is
| ("%b %e %H:%M" "%b %e  %Y")
|
|
|
| Documentation:
| *List of `format-time-string' specs to display file time stamps.
| They are used whenever a locale is not specified to use instead.
|
| Syntax:  (EARLY-TIME-FORMAT OLD-TIME-FORMAT)
|
| The EARLY-TIME-FORMAT is used if file has been modified within the
| current year. The OLD-TIME-FORMAT is used for older files.  To use ISO
| 8601 dates, you could set:
|
| (setq ls-lisp-format-time-list
|        '("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
|          "%Y-%m-%d      "))
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| [back]
`----

regards,

Tim

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