Modify Thunar date

Pizio · 2017-08-28 16:58:31

Hi there, I appreciate if there is a way to modify the date in thunar like this: day/month/year
I have seen there there are only these possibilities:
THUNAR_DATE_STYLE_SIMPLE (e.g. "Today")
THUNAR_DATE_STYLE_SHORT (e.g. "Today at 07:04:22 AM")
THUNAR_DATE_STYLE_LONG (e.g. "Fri 05 Dec 2014 07:04:22 AM CST")
THUNAR_DATE_STYLE_ISO (e.g. "2014-12-05 07:04:22")

Thanks

ToZ · 2017-09-01 14:23:16

Thunar doesn't have that level of customization, but you can use another locale's LC_TIME setting (for example pt_PT.UTF-8) that displays time in the dd-mm-yyyy format. To do so, start thunar via:

LC_TIME=pt_PT.UTF-8 thunar

Make sure that you have the correct locale configured for use and that the Thunar daemon isn't running when you test.

You can make this permanent by changing the thunar.desktop file so that the "Exec=" line reads:

Exec=env LC_TIME=pt_PT.UTF-8 thunar

Pizio · 2017-09-03 08:51:18

Well, my locale are:

LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=it
LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

 dpkg -l locales
Voluto=U (non noto)/I (installato)/R (rimosso)/P (rimosso totale)/H (in attesa)
| Stato=Non/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(nessuno)/R (reinstallazione richiesta) (Stato,Err: maiuscolo=grave)
||/ Nome                                                  Versione                        Architettura                    Descrizione
+++-=====================================================-===============================-===============================-================================================================================================================
ii  locales                                               2.23-0ubuntu9                   all                             GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]

Last edited by Pizio (2017-09-03 09:03:56)

ToZ · 2017-09-03 22:24:48

Try this:

1. First kill any existing thunar processes:

thunar -q

2. Try running thunar like this from the terminal window:

LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8 thunar

Does it make the time/date display like you are expecting?

Pizio · 2017-09-03 23:28:41

No, the date is always as I wrote above years/month/day and not dd/mm/yyyy.

ToZ · 2017-09-04 01:32:00

On my Xubuntu 17.04 system:

$ locale

LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

$ cat /etc/locale.gen | grep -v ^#

en_CA.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8
pt_BR.UTF-8 UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8 UTF-8

Thunar via the default (en_US.UTF-8) - date in YYYY-MM-DD format:

Thunar run via "LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8 thunar" - date in DD/MM/YYYY:

I used "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales" to add the non-English locales.

Pizio · 2017-09-04 07:54:50

Well, redoing the same command "LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8 thunar" I note after this command thunar opens file manager with any changes.
But I note also that the second image you have posted is the image obtained changing settings in preference day in Thunar (THUNAR_DATE_STYLE_SHORT). I would like to see the dates showed in this way dd/mm/yyyy and not "today/yesterday.

ToZ · 2017-09-04 11:01:15

Then I believe you will need to create an enhancement request over at bugzilla.

KBar · 2021-11-10 16:29:42

Sorry that I'm posting in this old thread, but can Thunar be modified to show time like `ls` does?

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.

ToZ · 2021-11-10 17:59:25

KBar wrote:

Sorry that I'm posting in this old thread, but can Thunar be modified to show time like `ls` does?

If you are running a recent version of thunar, in Edit>Preferences, Display Tab there is a Date option. If you set it to "Custom" and use the following string:

%b %_d %H:%M

...it should display the time as something similar to "ls -l".

Then you can also go to View>Columns and select different columns to display (and order them) to see if you can get something similar to the complete ls -l display.

KBar · 2021-11-10 18:21:36

Ah, I see. I'm on version 1.8.14-0ubuntu1. Yes, everything is set up so nicely to mimic the long format of `ls` and only the timestamp format is ruining it all.

Thank you nonetheless!

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