Re: UK date format in Dired

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:40:44 +0000
> From: "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

It turns out this is a feature of ls-lisp, the emulation of the ls
program used by Emacs on Windows.  Interested readers can read the
message I posted to help-emacs-windows with the detailed explanation
(look for the thread with the same Subject as this one).