Re: ls default time style

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:

> > In practice, the old default led to some real problems, as the dates
> > got too long and were too hard to parse automatically.
> 
> Programs that wish to parse "ls" output should call in the POSIX
> locale.

I believe Paul was referring to Dired in Emacs, in which case your advice 
is hard to follow: Emacs both displays the `ls' output _and_ parses it, 
to know where the file name begins etc.  Since the output is displayed, 
users want to see it formatted according to the LC_* and LANG variables.