Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)

Erik Soderquist ErikSoderquist@gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 16:42:00 GMT 2016


On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> So, the answer to your question is determined by what your locale thinks
> is the appropriate representation; and I have no control over whether
> Windows' locale defaults will match glibc's locale defaults for en_US or
> any other locale outside of C.


It is because I have been burned on this (world wide customers) that I
know explicitly specify the format I want to work with in my scripts
and disregard whatever the local is.

-- Erik

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