Hi,
This bug is related with "ls -l" command. «ls -l» time style is defined
here https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls.c#L773,
and here https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls.c#L786 .
Default/source English uses US "month followed by day" style ("%b %e %Y"
and "%b %e %H:%M"). These time-style format strings are locale
dependent, and time-style is provided by localization po files available
here https://translationproject.org/domain/coreutils.html . Each locale
can define own time-style format, and many European locales use "day
followed by month"
Example for German de.po (note relative position of %b (month) and %e
(day) placeholders)
msgid "%b %e %Y"
msgstr "%e. %b %Y "
--
msgid "%b %e %H:%M"
msgstr "%e. %b %H:%M"
Example for French fr.po (note relative position of %b (month) and %e
(day) placeholders)
msgid "%b %e %Y"
msgstr "%e %b %Y"
--
msgid "%b %e %H:%M"
msgstr "%e %b %H:%M"
But these localization strings are simply ignored by "ls" command if
coreutils.mo are not available on LC_TIME directory (current situation).
Run:
touch test.txt && for i in {ca_ES,es_ES,fr_FR,de_DE,en_GB}; do echo
"$i" && LC_ALL=$i.UTF-8 ls -l test.txt && echo;done
Output:
ca_ES
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 de juny 23 09:37 test.txt
es_ES
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 jun 23 09:37 test.txt
fr_FR
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 juin 23 09:37 test.txt
de_DE
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 Jun 23 09:37 test.txt
en_GB
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 Jun 23 09:37 test.txt
Please, note that all locales outputs "%b %e"!!?
But If you just create links in LC_TIME dir targeting coreutils.mo at
LC_MESSAGES (desired situation):
# for i in {ca,es,fr,de,en_GB}; do echo "$i" && mkdir
/usr/share/locale/$i/LC_TIME && ln -s
/usr/share/locale/$i/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/$i/LC_TIME/coreutils.mo;done
Then running again:
touch test.txt && for i in {ca_ES,es_ES,fr_FR,de_DE,en_GB}; do echo "$i"
&& LC_ALL=$i.UTF-8 ls -l test.txt && echo;done
Outputs:
ca_ES
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 23 juny 10:06 test.txt
es_ES
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 jun 23 10:06 test.txt
fr_FR
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 23 juin 10:06 test.txt
de_DE
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 23. Jun 10:06 test.txt
en_GB
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmontane jmontane 0 Jun 23 10:06 test.txt
Please, note that 'ca', 'fr', and 'de' based locales output "day
followed by month", because time-style format strings are honored now.
I've parsed coreutils translations from
https://translationproject.org/domain/coreutils.html, there are 20
locales with affected strings don't starting "%b...":
bg, ca, cs, da, de, et, eu, fi, fr, gl, hu, ia, it, ko, lt, nl, pl, sr,
sv, vi
So, at least these locales are impacted by this bug.
Thanks,
Joan
