Howdy,

When I am logged on as root and do an ls -l, I get the date format as 'Dec 16' etc ..

drwxrwxrwx 12 oracle dba 496 Dec 16 03:02 .
drwxrwxr-x 13 efin efin 416 Nov 13 16:50 ..

When I am logged on as a different user, oracle for example, I get the date in ISO format ..

drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle efin 112 2008-12-16 03:02 archive
-rw-rw-rw- 1 oracle dba 855 2008-12-16 11:02 dirlist

I want to be able to list the date as ISO format when I am the root user. Can anyone advice on how I do this please ?

Cheers !

Hya,

1. Read man page of ls, look for date format.
2. Check your locale.

3. See what happens and if you have further question, come back here,

Happy Penguins!

Cheers for that

How do I check my locale ?

Ta

Just type "locale" in a console window.

Thanks

For root I have

LANG=
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

All other users have ...

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

And this is the settings that I need.

How do I change the settings for root ??

Ta

That may depend on your distribution. On Slackware you can set in by changing /etc/profile.d/lang.sh to change it systemwide. Another approach is to change root's .bashrc and/or .bash_profile if you are using BASH as shell; export for example LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 in .bashrc and setup .bash_profile to load .bashrc if present. Or to come back to the distro problem, take a look at your distro's handbook/wiki etc.