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

[Eeva Järvinen]

Hmm. On my F16 installation:

[eeva at napander ~]$ LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" ls -l

-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2112004 Dec 24  2007 00062.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2258843 Aug  5  2007 00147.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva users   2703882 Aug  1  2007 00196.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2745657 Aug 19  2008 00208.jpg

... and so on. Everything's nice AFAICT.

Plain:

[eeva at napander ~]$ ls -l

-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2112004 24.12.2007 00062.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2258843  5.8.2007 00147.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva users   2703882  1.8.2007 00196.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2745657 19.8.2008 00208.jpg

Once again, everything's just ok. My default locale is

LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Actually, I can't get my Fedora installation to produce the results you give:

[eeva at napander ~]$ LC_TIME="C" ls -l
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2112004 Dec 24  2007 00062.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2258843 Aug  5  2007 00147.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva users   2703882 Aug  1  2007 00196.jpg
-rw-rw-r--.  1 eeva eeva    2745657 Aug 19  2008 00208.jpg

...which is exactly the same as en_US.UTF-8

[eeva at napander ~]$ rpm -q coreutils
coreutils-8.12-6.fc16.i686



Eeva