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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
Cc: 41201@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41201: 26.1; tar-mode-show-date prints middle-endian dates despite TIME_STYLE=long-iso
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 18:50:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k11h884k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftc5n4v1.fsf@goll.lan> (trentbuck@gmail.com)

> From: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:40:02 +1000
> 
> Middle-endian ("US style") dates confuse me.
> I set TIME_STYLE=long-iso so I won't have to deal with them.
> This works for GNU ls and GNU tar:
> 
>     bash5$ touch x; ls -l x; tar cf x.tar x; tar tvf x.tar
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 twb twb 0 2020-05-12 14:32 x
>     -rw-r--r-- twb/twb           0 2020-05-12 14:32 x
> 
> This doesn't work for tar-mode, because
> it processes tarballs using native elisp:
> 
>     bash5$ emacs -Q -eval '(setq-default tar-mode-show-date t)' x.tar
>      -rw-r--r--     twb/twb           0 May 12 14:33 2020 x

This is already fixed in what will become Emacs 27.1: there we display
the date in the yy-mm-dd format.  You can find the latest pretest of
Emacs 27.1 on alpha.gnu.org.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-12 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-12  4:40 bug#41201: 26.1; tar-mode-show-date prints middle-endian dates despite TIME_STYLE=long-iso Trent W. Buck
2020-05-12 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-01 14:50   ` Stefan Kangas

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