Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!Duchier-Denys
From: Duchier-Denys@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: dired sorting by date
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Date: 24 Aug 89 20:39:15 GMT
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Reply-To: Duchier-Denys@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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In article <44719@bbn.COM>, news@bbn (News system owner ID) writes:
> Okay, i've apropos'ed, checked the manual, browsed my local sources,
> and looked through the elisp archives, and i still haven't found a
> solution: 
> 
> any suggestions for how to sort a dired buffer by _date_?
> 
> Seems a little tough on the surface, since sort-columns appears to use
> a sort utility which won't do month names properly: i could have sworn i saw
> some code to do this before, but since i can't find it, if you've got
> a solution, please post/mail.

(setq dired-listing-switches "-algot")

--Denys