Jan 20, '04 09:51:00AM • Contributed by: dsquared
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 Dec 26 21:36 grpwhile on Panther it looks like:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 26 Dec 21:36 grpFor reasons unknown, someone at Apple decided to reverse the order of the month and the day. As I said, I have not seen this on four other UNIXs nor one previous version of Mac OS X. It is apparently not related to the International settings in System Preferences (both were set to United States), nor is it related to a brand new machine (my iMac is less than a month old and came with 10.3.1), nor the installation of 10.3 over an existing 10.2.8 on a friend's Mac.
For those like me out there who have various utilities that utilize the dates output by the ls command, Apple has generated some unnecessary work for us. Beware, there may be other hidden oddities as well.
