#!/bin/sh
# Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
-scriptversion=2005-05-14.22
+scriptversion=2010-02-22.21; # UTC
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, June 1995
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-# Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
cat <<\EOF
Usage: mdate-sh [--help] [--version] FILE
-Pretty-print the modification time of FILE.
+Pretty-print the modification day of FILE, in the format:
+1 January 1970
Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
EOF
LC_TIME=C
export LC_TIME
-save_arg1="$1"
+# GNU ls changes its time format in response to the TIME_STYLE
+# variable. Since we cannot assume `unset' works, revert this
+# variable to its documented default.
+if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; then
+ TIME_STYLE=posix-long-iso
+ export TIME_STYLE
+fi
+
+save_arg1=$1
# Find out how to get the extended ls output of a file or directory.
if ls -L /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
else
ls_command='ls -l -d'
fi
+# Avoid user/group names that might have spaces, when possible.
+if ls -n /dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ ls_command="$ls_command -n"
+fi
# A `ls -l' line looks as follows on OS/2.
# drwxrwx--- 0 Aug 11 2001 foo
# words should be skipped to get the date.
# On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interprets "-rw-r--r--" as options, so the "x" below.
-set x`ls -l -d /`
+set x`$ls_command /`
# Find which argument is the month.
month=
# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
-# time-stamp-end: "$"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
# End: