Re: ls default time style

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Well, then Emacs dired needs to use some more tricky parsing routines,
> rather than relying on the particular POSIX locale output.

That's what it does now, but the code becomes more and more arcane with 
each new release.

> But you cannot deduce how "ls" should behave outside of Emacs, by
> looking at implementation details of the Emacs dired mode.

I didn't say it should, I just tried to explain what Paul had in mind.  I 
do agree that packages such as Dired should at least be taken into 
consideration when discussing these matters.