From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 18:37: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165A437B405 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:36:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B473D43ED4 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:36:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1042425417.1a0533@mired.org) Received: (qmail 5479 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 02:36:57 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 02:36:57 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15899.36552.526547.87268@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:36:56 -0600 To: Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: LS -L command, year created field contains hour:minute instead of year In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.67 (Whirlaway) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , JoeB typed: > More info on problem. > I have files created by FBSD 4.5 before 6/19/02 that have the year > 2002 in the > year field. When in moved to 4.6 6/21/02 I have files created > during the rest > of 2002 that have dates with the time in the year field. > Now 1/5/03 I went to 4.7 and see the same problem. My earlier mail was wrong. Checking the source, the test for whether to print the year or the time is for files older than six months plus or minus. This is even documented in the manual page: If the modification time of the file is more than 6 months in the past or future, then the year of the last modification is displayed in place of the hour and minute fields. It's not a bug, it's a feature. To get complete time information, use the -lT. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message