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you could try ls -lat --time-style=iso

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Grin, guess I should refresh my pages when I get back from...

Could you check if specifying time-style makes a difference ?


ls -l --time-style=long-iso f5 | awk '{print $6}'


and


x=`ls -l --time-style=long-iso f5 | awk '{print $6}'`
echo $x
...

Can you post a sample output format from:

ls -l any_valid_filename
Is the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD ?

If you have used a windows editor you have to remove the CR's:
tr -d '\r' < dosfile > unixfile

yes Cgwin