Re: UK date format in Dired

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:21:46 +0100
> 
> Am 27.01.2007 um 11:27 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> >>
> >> You might add a customisation like that
> >>
> >>    '(dired-listing-switches "-alD --time-style=locale")
> >
> > This won't make any difference on the OP's platform, since the --time
> > switch is not supported by the ls-lisp.el emulation of ls.
> 
> I know – I was referring to an installation of GNU ls. And only to  
> this a locale would have an effect, too.

You are assuming that a port of GNU ls will work on Windows wrt
locales as it does on Posix platforms.  That's a lot to assume; it
should be tested first, especially since there's more than one port of
GNU ls to Windows.