Peter,

Thanks, be fine and I have added this line to my .emacs , but it has made no
difference.

Is the "locale" in the code the actual text or am I meant to replace with a
regional name eg "european"

Graham

On 26/01/07, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
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> Am 26.01.2007 um 19:55 schrieb Graham Smith:
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> > As you can see dates are year-month-day, rather than day-month-year
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> You might add a customisation like that
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>         '(dired-listing-switches "-alD --time-style=locale")
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> On UNIX is lists like:
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>         drwxrwxr-t  10 root admin     340 Dec 28 10:38 ..
>         -rw-rw-r--   1 pete admin   24580 Jan 22 10:53 .DS_Store
>         -rw-rw-r--   1 pete admin      54 Jul 11  2005 ADSL
>         -rw-rw-r--   1 pete admin      18 Aug 24 20:40 AFM-Maße
>
> The single letter options mean:
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>         -a all entries, including those that start with . (UNIX special)
>         -l long format, with size date, ownership
>         -D output for GNU Emacs' dired-mode
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> Atheism is a non prophet organization.
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