[oclug] Solaris ls command question?

[Patrick Smith]

Ross Jordan wrote:
> It would seem todd.clattenburg at sdc-dsc.gc.ca, on Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:55:05AM -0400, wrote:
>>I am working on Solaris 5.6. Don't laugh if this is a stupid question,
>>but, the 'ls -l' command shows the date and not the time. How do I get
>>it to show the date and the time? 
> 
> You can force it with ls -lc (ctime) ls -lu (mtime)

Are you sure about the last?  It's been around three years since I last 
used Solaris, but I remember 'ls -lu' as showing the access time, not 
the modification time.  Certainly GNU ls on my Linux box behaves that way.

GNU ls has a nice --time-style option.  E.g.

$ ls -l --time-style=long-iso pl
-rw-r--r--  1 pat pat 1682 2003-12-01 01:18 pl
$ ls -l pl
-rw-r--r--  1 pat pat 1682 Dec  1  2003 pl

Of course, that doesn't help unless one has GNU ls somewhere on one's 
Solaris box.  :-(