Here are the results of a ls -lrt command in unix:
-rw-r--r-- 1 blah blah 846 Apr 18 2013 filetype1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 blah blah 290338533 Jan 3 00:59 filetype2.log
Why does one conveniently return the year while the other just has month, day, and time stamp? How can I always get the year?
EDIT: Here's an example where the last edit time was NOT within the current year and still no year:
-rw-r--r-- 1 blah blah 689466 Dec 31 23:59 filetype2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 blah blah 689591 Jan 1 00:59 filetype2.log
From the GNU Coreutils manual:
By default, file timestamps are listed in abbreviated form, using a date like 'Mar 30 2002' for non-recent timestamps, and a date-without-year and time like 'Mar 30 23:45' for recent timestamps. This format can change depending on the current locale as detailed below.
A timestamp is considered to be "recent" if it is less than six months old, and is not dated in the future. If a timestamp dated today is not listed in recent form, the timestamp is in the future, which means you probably have clock skew problems which may break programs like 'make' that rely on file timestamps.