Package: emacs
Version: 23.2+1-7
Severity: wishlist

The use of locale for displaying dates is problematic outside of English;
An example using FI locale:

    eshell$ ls -l
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users   39269 maalis  7 18:29 align.elc
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users  297856 helmi 23 11:11 allout.el
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users  213672 maalis  7 18:29 allout.elc
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users   25176 tammi  8 11:45 ansi-color.el

The output appears rugged and is hard to read. The following patch make "ls
-l" use international ISO 8601 date format:

    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users   39269 2011-03-07 18:29 align.elc
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users  297856 2011-02-23 11:11 allout.el
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users  213672 2011-03-07 18:29 allout.elc
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 user          users   25176 2011-01-08 11:45 ansi-color.el

2011-04-07  Jari Aalto  <jari.aalto@cante.net>

        * eshell/em-ls.el
        (eshell-ls-date-format): New variable. Show dates in ISO 8601
        format by default.
        (eshell-ls-file): Use `eshell-ls-date-format'.

-- System Information
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT Prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, testing) (500, unstable) (1, experimental)
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux picasso 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_ALL=

-- Versions of packages `emacs depends on'.
Depends:
emacs23         23.2+1-7        GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting 
emacs23-lucid   23.2+1-7        GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting 
emacs23-nox     23.2+1-7        GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting