The dates output by ls -l use the default C locale format when a locale is explicitly set Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. localedef -i en_AU -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8 2. LC_ALL="en_AU.UTF-8" ls -l / 3. Actual Results: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 18 13:21 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 18 21:12 boot drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 24576 Apr 18 13:22 dev drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Apr 18 13:37 etc Expected Results: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-04-18 13:21 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-02-18 21:12 boot drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 24576 2004-04-18 13:22 dev drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2004-04-18 13:37 etc This problem can be fixed by downgrading to coreutils 5.0-r5 This problem also occurs on GRP 2004.0 i686 version and with -march=pentium3 and -march=pentium4 Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.20-xfs_pre6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-xfs_pre6 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm arts crypt encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mmx mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl pdflib png qt sdl slang svga truetype X xml2 xmms zlib gdbm readline ssl python acpi alsa -avi -berkdb cjk cups doc dvd esd gnome gpg gtk2 imap -imlib innodb -java maildir -mikmod -motif mozilla mysql nls pam perl -quicktime radeon -sis -matrox -3dfx -gamma -i8x0 samba -spell sse tcltk -tcpd tetex tiff usb xv"
Hmm, worked ok for me. I have an japanese local on my system with coreutils 5.0.91 (The latest ~x86 which I actually was installing to confirm another bug someone had). Results came out as: bash-2.05b$ ls -l 合計 48 -rwx------ 1 chris users 44935 11月 15 22:27 GetWineX bash-2.05b$ As shown here, my files are labeled with specific japanese locale. Might try doing ~x86 and seeing if that works. I'll simply recommend this as you seem to prefer having the lastest version.
I am happy enough with down grading coreutils. I just figured this problem should be reported. I have had this problem occur on quite a few systems so it is not the result of something strange on just one system. For example it occurs on GRP 2004.0 stage3 i.e immediately after you unpack the stage3 tarball. I have also tried various compile flags to get rid of it.
Well, one thing that would better help to assess the situation in case it's version specific would be the version you're referring to. If I had that, I'd be better able to test that version and see if it's something that truly needs to be fixed.
I have tried several versions. All versions more recent than 5.0-r5 seem to have the problem. The main one to test however is sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91-r4. This version outputs POSIX format dates when the locale is en_AU.UTF-8. To test this you will need to make the locale using localedef. The GNU documentation in info:/coreutils/Formatting file timestamps states: "By default, file timestamps are listed in abbreviated form. Most locales use a timestamp like `2002-03-30 23:45'. However, the default POSIX locale uses a date like `Mar 30 2002' for non-recent timestamps, and a date-without-year and time like `Mar 30 23:45' for recent timestamps." This format is not a normal Australian date format but that's ok. The POSIX format given by coreutils-5.0.91-r4 is definitely not Australian and thus it must be ignoring the locale which it is not meant to do.
Testing using the following testcase: 1) emerge the version of coretils given (coreutils-5.0.91-r4) 2) setup Australian locale with localedef 3) setup Australian locale as the current locale 4) ls -la 5) Expected result: dates should be formatted according to Australian locale.
Ok, I'm able to confirm the bug now: bash-2.05b# localedef -i en_AU -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8 bash-2.05b# LC_ALL="en_AU.UTF-8" bash-2.05b# LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" bash-2.05b# locale LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 bash-2.05b# ls -l /home/chris/final_date final_date final_date2 bash-2.05b# ls -l /home/chris/te temp test.c test.vim test2.txt temp_urls.txt test.r test2 test_old test test.txt test2.c test_old.c bash-2.05b# ls -l /home/chris/test.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 chris root 375 Apr 15 09:38 /home/chris/test.txt I'll try and see if I can contact someone to help with this bug.
ok, this is broken in coreutils 5.2.1, but it is fixed in upstream cvs ... i wasnt able to track down exactly where the fix occured in cvs, so i'm just going to mark this as UPSTREAM and make you wait for the next coreutils release since this isnt a critical issue please re-open if you feel so inclined to split off a small cvs patch from upstream to rectify this issue ! :)
thanks for persisting with this. It's only a minor issue so I think it is better just to wait for the upstream fix to filter down.
