From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
Message-Id: <200307100615.h6A6Fh7H072115@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
In-Reply-To: <f8315d034cfd2a004303db9bdf674178@collyer.net>
Date: Wed,  9 Jul 2003 23:15:43 -0700
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>-rw-rw-r--    1 geoff    geoff       24030 2003-07-01 02:13 .fonts.cache-1
>-rw-rw-r--    1 geoff    geoff       99551 2003-06-25 05:07 FOOFILE
>
>different unhelpful sort order, ugly all-numeric dashed dates and ghod
>only knows what other stupidity.  Luckily, adding LANG=C to your
>.profile defeats this.

While I agree the sort ordering on names is terrible, I'd argue the
"ugly all-numeric dashed dates" are actually more desirable than the
traditional Unix format, because they are more sortable.

With traditional Unix date strings you get into all sorts of ugly
contortions if you want to run them through sort(1).  System V added
a -M option to sort to do grok month names, but it is still unpleasant.