Eli,

Thanks for the reply

Some Text from Dired below

-rw-rw-rw-   1 Graham   root         36864 2002-07-22  IKingCV2002.doc
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 Graham   root         37376 2002-07-23  IKingCVJuly2002.doc
  drwxrwxrwx   1 Graham   root             0 2005-08-14  Invoices
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 Graham   root         24064 2002-05-29  IonaCVMay2001.doc
  drwxrwxrwx   1 Graham   root             0 10-06 00:35
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As you can see dates are year-month-day, rather than day-month-year

Screen shot of regionalisation settings is attached.

I'm not sure how to apply ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program

If I try

M-x ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program

I get [no match]


Graham

On 26/01/07, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:15:26 +0000
> > From: "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > Thanks for the help, but yes I am on Windows, and all OS regional
> settings
> > are already set up for the UK.
>
> Then what is the problem, exactly?  If your Windows regional settings
> are already set up for the UK, Dired should automatically use the date
> format you set up via the regional settings.  That's because, on
> Windows, Dired uses ls emulation written in Lisp (see ls-lisp.el in
> the Emacs distribution), which eventually calls Windows APIs to
> display the date and time.  So it should ``just work'' as you expect.
>
> Can you please show us the details of your regional settings (in
> Control Panel), and an example of Dired display?
>
> Also, what is your value of the variable
> ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program?
>
>
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