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

[Paul Jarc]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> If we increase the window to greater than 24 hours (to 144 hours,
> say), we'll need a day-of-the-week indicator, and this format is
> just a little bit too weird even for me:
>
>    $ ls -l .profile today
>    -r--r--r--    1 eggert   eggert       4012 2001-11-20 .profile
>    -rw-rw-r--    1 eggert   eggert          0 4 16:10:01 today
>
> (That '4' stands for Thursday.)  Yuck.

Would it be any better to use the day of the month?  That would take
one extra column, but would be more silimar to existing formats, and
might be less confusing.


paul