It annoys me that sometimes when I run ls -l on a folder it reports the date and time for some files and only the date and year for others.
$ ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 173 Dec 22 09:49 a1.par
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 191 Dec 22 09:49 a2.par
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 185 Dec 22 09:49 a3.par
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 497 Dec 22 09:49 a4.par
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 238 Dec 22 09:49 a5.par
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 260 Dec 22 09:49 a6.par
-rwxr-x--- 1 oracle9 dba 1076 Dec 22 09:49 al.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 oracle9 dba 931 Dec 22 09:49 im.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 oracle9 dba 982 Dec 22 09:49 mt.sh
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle9 dba 4096 Dec 22 09:49 comp
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle9 dba 4096 Dec 22 10:08 scr
-rw------- 1 oracle9 dba 0 Dec 22 10:25 nohup.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 0 Dec 22 10:25 start
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 0 Dec 22 10:25 start2
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 5587 Dec 22 2016 g2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 5725 Dec 22 2016 g2.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 0 Dec 22 2016 t6.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 0 Dec 22 2016 start6
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 0 Dec 22 2016 g6.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 781 Dec 22 2016 t2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle9 dba 730 Dec 22 2016 g6.out
Notice that it doesn't show the time for the last 7 files in the list, and that it doesn't show the year for the first 14 files.
This behavior is not always reproducible.
- How can this be avoided?
- Shouldn't the date/time format be consistent within the same list by default?
The OS is Red Hat 6.4
