[Techtalk] what the heck is it with locale and ls -l

[John Clarke]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:02:16PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:

> Both report the same locale-- en_US.UTF-8. So why does Fedora use the 
> irritating date formatting where dates in the current year omit the year? 

Is LC_TIME set to "C" on your Fedora box?  If set, LC_TIME overrides LOCALE
for date formatting.  What do you get if you run "LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 ls -l"?


John

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