Linux ls wrong date format

Question

I try to find why when I do the command ls or whatever ls -la the column format is wrong with date.

It should be like that:

-rw-r--r--  1 johndoe johndoe   55 janv. 26  2011

not like that :

 drwxr-xr-x  6 neworldc neworldc 4096 ao0  2011 fr/

take a look to the date format ??? : ao0 2011 or like that: f 3 03:14

That's probably because Août has an accent and your terminal does not know how to display them with the locale settings you are using. — terdon, Commented Feb 14, 2014 at 14:46

jlliagre · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-13 18:23:28Z

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There is likely a mismatch between the codeset ls is told to use and what you terminal emulator think it is.

Try the following commands:

LC_ALL=C ls -l

LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF8 ls -l

LC_ALL=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 ls -l

answered Feb 13, 2014 at 18:23

jlliagre

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I'm having the same problem, and my locale is en_AU. ls insists on putting the month first, and that's completely incorrect in my locale. As it happens, if I do LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF8 ls -l I get "avr. 16 14:26", which is also wrong for France.
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