Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)

[Miles Bader]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> we would change 'ls' to use times for files modified within the last
> 24 hours, and dates for older files.  The basic idea is to use a 1-day
> window, not the 6-month window of the POSIX locale.  I would like to
> hear reactions to this idea.

The main problem I have with this solution is that it seems rather
unintuitive to see a file that was modified late yesterday as only
having a time, especially if the file was modified close to 24 hours
ago.  E.g., if it's now 10:30am, and I see a file listed as `10:45:32',
then it _feels_ like the file was modified today, even though it wasn't
(and if I think about it for a second, I'll see that -- but I really
shouldn't have to `think about it' for such a common case).

-Miles
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