Re: [h-e-w] UK date format in Dired

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>       ;; Use traditional time format in the C or POSIX locale,
>       ;; ISO-style time format otherwise, so columns line up.
>
> And since the Windows port of Emacs always sets "LANG" to the current
> Windows language identifier, we end up never using the value of
> ls-lisp-format-time-list, but always use the ISO format instead.
>
> The comment above says it's a feature: it makes the columns line up,
> which would not be guaranteed if we used the localized format (since
> the length of localized month names could be anything).

Perhaps ls-lisp could fill the locale time string with spaces to make
the columns line up; that would be more friendly.

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