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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 4cdbf66ac..bc7a1f3ee 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -105,14 +105,14 @@ * ls -n now implies -l, as per POSIX. * ls can now display dates and times in one of four time styles: - - The `full-iso' time style gives full ISO-style time stamps like + - The `full-iso' time style gives full ISO-style timestamps like `2001-05-14 23:45:56.477817180 -0700'. - - The 'iso' time style gives ISO-style time stamps like '2001-05-14 ' + - The 'iso' time style gives ISO-style timestamps like '2001-05-14 ' and '05-14 23:45'. - - The 'locale' time style gives locale-dependent time stamps like + - The 'locale' time style gives locale-dependent timestamps like 'touko 14 2001' and 'touko 14 23:45' (in a Finnish locale). - The 'posix-iso' time style gives traditional POSIX-locale - time stamps like 'May 14 2001' and 'May 14 23:45' unless the user + timestamps like 'May 14 2001' and 'May 14 23:45' unless the user specifies a non-POSIX locale, in which case it uses ISO-style dates. This is the default. @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Changes in release 4.1: directory, don't treat it as if it were the only argument. Before, `mkdir d; ls no-dir d 2>/dev/null' would act like `ls d' and produce no output. Now, it prints `d:'. -* touch -d 'last friday' would use a time stamp that was one hour off +* touch -d 'last friday' would use a timestamp that was one hour off (e.g., 23:00 on *thursday* rather than 00:00 of the preceding friday) when run such that the current time and the target date/time fall on opposite sides of a daylight savings time transition. @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Changes in release 4.1: a diagnostic * The manual now warns that ls's --full-time format string is planned to change in a future release. -* ls -l's time stamp format now depends on LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES, +* ls -l's timestamp format now depends on LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES, as POSIX requires. * ls -l now reports the year for files even slightly in the future, as POSIX requires. This helps warn users about clock skew problems. @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ Changes in release 4.0: * `cp -a --one-file-system' now copies any mount point directories it encounters on the selected file system. [3.16t] -* cp (with --update) and ls compare time stamps with subsecond resolution when +* cp (with --update) and ls compare timestamps with subsecond resolution when available (e.g., on systems with recent Linux kernels and on Solaris 2.6). * install once again does the -m-specified chmod *after* running strip (this fixes another bug introduced in 3.16o) |