odd timestamps on files when

[Hal Duston]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Becker, Rob [mailto:Becker at celeritas.com]
> 
> > I have some files on a Fat32 partition of a drive that show 
> > up with the year missing when I list them is ls -al.  Here is 
> > what I see instead.
> > permissions group owner filesize Month/day/time??
> > 
> > These files have no year but rather a date and 24 hr (military
> > time) type of a time listed in place of the year.  Has anyone seen
> > this before?
> 
> Has anyone seen anything else?  Files from the current year display
> the time instead of the year.  Same thing in ash and tcsh, the only
> other shells I have on this system.

>From the `ls' man page:

"If the time of last modification is greater than six months ago, it is
shown in the format `month date year';  files modified within six months
show `month date time.'"

Hal Duston