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This is a sample output of ls -l on my Ubuntu 17.04 box:

drwxr-xr-x 2 amoro amoro 4096 kvě  6 16:26 myfile

There are two parameters that I don't recognize. Counting from left to right, the 6th and the 7th, i.e., kvě and 6 respectively. I googled this but couldn't find an answer. Do you have any clues?

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    it should be the date (of last modification of the file). Is kve short for the name of a month in your language? – Zanna May 07 '17 at 09:59
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    Yes, it's the date of the last time the file has been modified. kvě 6 16:26 is Czech for May 6 16:26 – M. Becerra May 07 '17 at 10:03
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    Run: LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 ls -l – Ravexina May 07 '17 at 10:03
  • Might be useful https://askubuntu.com/questions/673741/how-to-change-language-only-for-terminal – M. Becerra May 07 '17 at 10:11
  • Ok that's weird since the installation language I choose is English. How can I change this? Running this command returns the expected output LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 ls -l. But How can I make this change effective? – Antonello Moro May 07 '17 at 10:24
  • @AntonelloMoro localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8 or change it in this file: /etc/default/locale. – Ravexina May 07 '17 at 10:25
  • I tried but it doesn't seem to work. Also the content of this file /etc/default/locale was ANG=en_US.utf8. It looks like the problem affects only the date settings of my box. In fact I opened the date setting and found the it was set to Prague. I changed to Rome but the language is still czech – Antonello Moro May 07 '17 at 10:34
  • Ok I managed to solve by setting the locale in language support->regional format. Thanks a lot – Antonello Moro May 07 '17 at 10:38
  • Not all programs interpret the various LC_* settings properly. For instance, I have LC_CTYPE set to fr_CH (because I exchange emails with clients in Switzerland and like to see the French accents), but some programs would use this to set some or all of their dialogs to French,. – jamesqf May 07 '17 at 17:47

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When encountering similar situations, try setting the default locale as en_US, in your case with the command is ls -l, you would run:

LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 ls -l

It will produce all output in en_US so there will be no confusion.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 ravexina ravexina  79 Sep 20 2016 test.txt

You can change it using:

localectl set-locale LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

or only for date:

localectl set-locale LC_TIME=en_US.utf8

then logout and login again, if it did not take effect, reboot your system.

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Here's one on my system

drwxrwxr-x  2 zanna zanna 4096 May  5 07:44 custom

Left to right we have

  • type (directory)
  • mode (permissions)
  • hardlinks (2)
  • owner (zanna)
  • group (zanna)
  • size (in bytes)
  • month last modified (May)
  • day of the month last modified (5th)
  • time last modified on that day
  • filename

So the fields confusing you are the month and day of the last modification of the file. Kve must be a month or abbreviation of the name of a month in your system locale/language.

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