From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:58:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ls now defaults to --time-style='locale'.
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~1387
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de4224e5df1afeb989151932c6ff669970897b71;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

ls now defaults to --time-style='locale'.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8882c17fe2..6876b68a44 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 * Major changes in release 6.0-cvs (????-??-??) [unstable]
 
+** Changes in behavior
+
+  ls now defaults to --time-style='locale', not --time-style='posix-long-iso'.
+  However, the 'locale' time style now behaves like 'posix-long-iso'
+  if your locale settings appear to be messed up.  This change
+  attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
+
 ** Scheduled for removal
 
   rm's --directory (-d) option is scheduled for removal in 2006.  This