On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 7:05 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> That regexp is the best heuristic we could come up with that caters to
> the various formats of date and time that the various versions of 'ls'
> out there produce.  It is true that the regexp can be tricked into
> mistakes, but we could not find a better solution that supports all
> the valid use cases.  We use the --dired option of 'ls' when available
> precisely for this reason: to allow Dired to determine the file names
> reliably.  If --dired is not supported, then there will be problems
> with certain file names, yes.  That is a known limitation, so users
> are encouraged to install GNU Coreutils (which is where GNU 'ls' comes
> from) to make Dired immune to those problems.
>

Thank you.