Re: ls default time style

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Paul Jarc)
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:05:29 -0500
> 
> > 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,
> 
> It could call ls in the POSIX locale and then reformat the
> easily-parsed date in the local hard-but-unnecessary-to-parse format.

I'm not sure I understand how; could you elaborate?  Specifically, how
did you envision the reformatting form the Posix to the local format?