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Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date) |
Date: |
21 Dec 2001 14:59:23 +0900 |
address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
> > -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.
I think it would be confusing, for the same reason that the `MM-DD'
notation is: it's not familiar, and doesn't match any obvious pattern
(whereas the four-digit year in YYYY-MM-DD provides a big clue to what
the whole thing means, for people who've never seen that particular
format before).
Personally, I think the `MM-DD HH:MM' notation is `good enough' -- the
fact that `MM-DD' is followed by an obvious time provides a pretty big
hint that it's a date, and the fact that it uses `-' instead of `/'
serves to alert e.g. Americans that the order of the elements may not be
what they're used to. I suspect that people would get used to it soon
enough, and would like its relative consistency once they're used to it.
-Miles
--
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", (continued)
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", Miles Bader, 2001/12/20
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", Paul Eggert, 2001/12/20
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", Miles Bader, 2001/12/20
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", Markus Kuhn, 2001/12/20
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", Paul Eggert, 2001/12/21
- Re: revised use of column space in "ls", Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Miles Bader, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Miles Bader, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Jarc, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date),
Miles Bader <=
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Bruno Haible, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Jarc, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/20
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/21
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/22
- Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date), Paul Eggert, 2001/12/23