The gsettings option "org.gnome.nautilus.preferences date-format iso" should be added back to Nautilus as soon as possible in the development cycle. 


File management activities often benefit from the use of a standardized date-time format. A standardized format such as YEAR-MONTH-DAY-TIME can be a critical requirement for managing files based on creation and/or modification date-times. Adding insult to injury, Nautilus does not even display correct formatting when a local time that observes the international standard, such as Denmark, is set.

The date-time format that Nautilus is currently using is practically useless, forcing many users to switch to Nemo or use bash/terminal for file management purposes. I applaud GNOME's efforts to streamline and clean up code. But the removal of the ISO date-format is going way too far; it cripples effective use of the file manager to not offer an internationally agreed upon date-format. If Nautilus was to only offer one date-format, it should have been the ISO format. To not offer it at all, even as a preference, is a massive oversight.

Because of this omission, I have been forced to use bash/terminal for most of my file management needs leaving me without a GUI file manager. I could install Nemo but I prefer to stay with "native apps" as much as possible. Hence my hope that GNOME will fix this terrible error of removing the ISO date-format option. If nautilus does not add this critically important setting back, people will be forced to move away from nautilus as a GUI option for file management as the absence of an ISO date-format renders Nautilus useless for many users' file management needs.