date format on terminal with ls -l

[alvenegas]

Anybody knows how to change the date format when invoking "ls -l " on the command terminal?
Currently I get Month Day Year and I want YEAR-MM-DD format including those dashes. And
it is not with the locale. I use en.US-UTF8 in linux and it does prints it the way I want it to be, so I don't need to change it to ISO.
I have seen other forum comments about it but not much and they do not solve the problem.
Any thoughts?

 

[cradom]

You get the year? Mine only shows month/day. Screen shot?

 

[alvenegas]

Hi cradom, yes, it shows the year whenever it is not the current year, in which case it shows the time. Here is a screen shot of two systems; the first on a mac and the other on my linux box. The mac shows the date format i do not want and the second is the linux showing the format I wish to have on the mac.

 

[cradom]

Ummm...what screen shots?
Checked a few things. Mine does it too. Never noticed that before. Never really looked.
Don't know how to change time format but...
The -U switch will list according to file creation date
The -t switch will list according to file modification date
Maybe that will help?

 

[pm-r]

You might be able to change the sort order and display according to some using the "ls man page", but don't ask me how.

i.e.: Man Page for ls (opensolaris Section 1) - The UNIX and Linux Forums

Maybe...???

 

[alvenegas]

Hmm...this is really strange. I can't believe there is no answer. Perhaps it is simple, but would love someone to point me in the right direction....

 

[chinajon]

Is the format you want a standard format from a particular region?
If so, go into Sys Pref in Language and Region and set the date format to the region you need.

 

[XJ-linux]

stat -l -t '%FT%T' * for example.

 

[pm-r]

Gheese XJ-linux, for a second or so I thought you were just swearing at the OP!! ;D

 

[chscag]

Gheese XJ-linux, for a second or so I thought you were just swearing at the OP!! ;D

He was, it's called Unix speak.

 

[cradom]

At least it wasn't l33t speak

 

[cradom]

Is the format you want a standard format from a particular region?
If so, go into Sys Pref in Language and Region and set the date format to the region you need.

I tried that, first thing I thought of. Couldn't get it to work.
Or is a restart required?

 

[alvenegas]

Thanks guys, but I am trying to look for the cause for the discrepancy, not looking for a way to go around it. I tried setting the locale, but as I stated before, that is not the culprit. Neither is changing it on the System Preferences. I have tried that as well to no avail.

 

[cradom]

According to man date:
The command:

date "+DATE: %Y-%m-%d%nTIME: %H:%M:%S"

will display:

DATE: 1987-11-21
TIME: 13:36:16

So maybe you could do something with the env command to set a default date readout? Or possibly an alias or function?