I don't see a bug in the cases you mention. First, 'ls' dynamically adjusts
column widths to fit the data, and this is considered to be a feature. Second,
different platforms have different time stamp resolutions. The idea that all
dates should use the same width is doomed anyway, since file time stamps can
exceed the year 9999:
$ touch -d'10000-01-01 00:00:00' far-in-future
$ touch now
$ ls -l --full-time
-rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 10000-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 -0800 far-in-future
-rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 2014-11-29 13:07:55.182466680 -0800 now
Arguably this last example *is* a bug in 'ls', as dates should line up even when
they're outlandish. But it's not likely to be a bug one runs into with real
files, at least, not for another 7985 years or so.
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