[Sunhelp] File date stamps

[Nicholas Dronen]

Hi:

The answer to your question is documented in the section
of the ls(1) man page.  See the paragraph that discusses
the -l flag, or search for "year."

Regards,

Nick Dronen

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:48:15PM +1000, Grant Hooper wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Can anybody tell me what controls whether a file diplays
> 'time' or displays  'year'  in its date stamp when being created
> 
> There doesn't appear to be any pattern with directories, links etc
> all displaying different formats on my system.
> 
> For example
> 
> ls -l
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x      1 granth   radio        555 Jan 19  2000    Dmgr_C.4
> drwx------   2 granth   radio         24   Sep 19 10:52   mail
> drwxr-xr-x      9 granth   radio       1024 Aug 16 14:31   mgc
> 
> The first file gives me the year which is useful for telling just how
> old a file
> is whereas the others give a time which is useless
> 
> Sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm trying to clear so disk space
> and
> want to avoid a problem in the future if possible
> 
> Any ideas
> 
> Grant Hooper
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