Re: UK date format in Dired

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

"Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to get Dired to show dates in UK format.  I have added a line to
> .emacs to show the diary dates in European format, but cannot find any instructions
> to change the format in Dired.
>

This probably depends on whether your using the elisp version of ls or the ls
that is installed on your system (the one which would be called in a shell). 

If your using the elisp ls emulation, check out ls-lisp-format-time-list. I use
the ls-lisp function rather than the native ls program because I also like
dired to list directories first. 

,----[ C-h v ls-lisp-format-time-list RET ]
| ls-lisp-format-time-list is a variable defined in `ls-lisp.el'.
| Its value is 
| ("%b %e %H:%M" "%b %e  %Y")
| 
| 
| 
| Documentation:
| *List of `format-time-string' specs to display file time stamps.
| They are used whenever a locale is not specified to use instead.
| 
| Syntax:  (EARLY-TIME-FORMAT OLD-TIME-FORMAT)
| 
| The EARLY-TIME-FORMAT is used if file has been modified within the
| current year. The OLD-TIME-FORMAT is used for older files.  To use ISO
| 8601 dates, you could set:
| 
| (setq ls-lisp-format-time-list
|        '("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
|          "%Y-%m-%d      "))
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| [back]
`----

regards,

Tim

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