[Bug: 21.4.19] dired does not work properly anymore

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mats Lidell writes:

 > I'm not thinking of gaining speed but to avoid having to parse the
 > localized output. The regexp doing that isn't easy to digest.

I don't know why Mike insists on allowing localization, especially
since he's made no attempt to parse Devanagari, Swahili, and Japanese
(the one that bites me ;).  All we need to do is set the time format
LC_TIME=C in the environment passed to ls.  If we want to substitute
localized output later we can use format-time-string, I think.

 > For my normal work I tend to use only a fragment of the information in
 > a ls-l-listing so a much simpler directory view would suffice for me.

I suspect that would require a substantial rewrite of dired to
accomplish.

 > On the other hand, going to external systems by means of ssh etc, we
 > are back again to parsing the output from ls ...

Yup.