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How to change the date format for nautilus?

Asked by Aisano

This may sound a bit like question 170508 but it does not solve my problem: For a couple of weeks now, maybe since I went to Ubuntu 13.4, my nautilus no longer displays file modification times (hour, minute, second) but only the date. It is not a question of system locale: When I call "date" in a shell it displays everything.

Is there a way to get my modification time display back?

Or is there a better solution than nautilus? Ubuntu 13.4 took away a lot I liked: A rich menu, the possibility to open new tabs (now I just can open them in the context menu), and, above all, the possibility to unfold directories in the file window (right hand side). Maybe there is some "classic" mode?

Thanks for any hint,
Aisano

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

This isn't a complete answer as I don't think what you want is possible any more but for a file you can right click on it and select properties to see the time.

It doesn't work with directories however.

I also don't like the fact that it appears to have created a new user "Me". It hasn't but if I own a file it shows as owned by "Me". This could get confusing if someone did have a user called "Me"

If I need to know the time stamp I use the command line

ls -la

Another alternative is a different file manager. There are lots to choose from: I can't personally recommend any particular one as I still use Nautilus but take a look here:

http://www.tuxarena.com/2011/06/20-file-managers-for-ubuntu/

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Aisano (info-ais-sanmarino) said : 		#2

Thanks, Warren, for your answer. You confirmed that those changes were real (and not caused by an accidental modification of preferences or something similar).

I think the solution is to switch to another file browser. Dolphin looks interesting but seems to lack the facility to associate file types and programs; it opens pictures in Firefox and doesn't let me change that to image viewer, which nautilus uses. (Both seem to ignore the settings made by "mimeopen". Thunar uses image viewer but I haven't used it a lot, just enough to see that it is not copy-paste compatible with nautilus.

I shall have to experiment.

Again, thanks,
Aisano

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Anders Lind (anders-lind) said : 		#3

askubuntu.com has a thread regarding this issue:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/285493/how-to-show-full-date-and-time-in-nautilus-files-3-6-list-view
The accepted answer contains information about how to fix this. Could be get this fix into at least Ubuntu 14.04?

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