Re: [h-e-w] UK date format in Dired

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: "Graham Smith" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:30:13 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >     ;; Use traditional time format in the C or POSIX locale,
> >     ;; ISO-style time format otherwise, so columns line up.
> >
> > And since the Windows port of Emacs always sets "LANG" to the current
> > Windows language identifier, we end up never using the value of
> > ls-lisp-format-time-list, but always use the ISO format instead.
> >
> > The comment above says it's a feature: it makes the columns line up,
> > which would not be guaranteed if we used the localized format (since
> > the length of localized month names could be anything).
> 
> Perhaps ls-lisp could fill the locale time string with spaces to make
> the columns line up; that would be more friendly.

Patches are welcome, but please note that there be dragons: for
example, some Windows locales don't define abbreviated month names,
and instead produce full names.  Whatever code you have in mind should
deal with such locales as well.