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I would like to increase the precision of column "modification" shown in Nautilus to include a time. This is under Unity.

I found this related question (concerning an older nautilus version), but I consider the answer (recompiling nautilus) overkill for my purposes.

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  • I've not found anything that can show date+exact time in the columns of list view. It is however possible to see exact date+time if you right click on the file. I've also sketched out a script that integrates into nautilus and can show a popup with filename and time via right click menu, but it seems there's not a lot that can be done for list view – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jul 31 '16 at 14:41
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    You might want to consider submitting a feature request to Nautilus developers on Launchpad – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jul 31 '16 at 14:45

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There is a dconf setting which I think should control this behaviour, but it seems not to have any effect on Nautilus on my 16.04 Ubuntu (Unity desktop), it only affects file-choser windows like the "Open..." or "Save as..." dialogues of most applications.

You can get the current value of this setting using the command 

gsettings get org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser date-format

The default is regular, the other option is with-time. You change the value with one of the two commands below.

gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser date-format with-time
gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser date-format regular

I am not sure whether it's a bug that this setting does not affect Nautilus or whether that is by design though. However, unfortunately I could not find anything closer to what you want.

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