On my -current "ls -c" and "ls -u" produce only alphanumeric output, no sort by date.... my 4.7 box works fine... FreeBSD Twoflower 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Sun Sep 14 14:17:26 CEST 2003 root at Twoflower.liebende.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Twoflower50 i386