diff --git a/vfs/ChangeLog b/vfs/ChangeLog
index 6c6402c08..bc1050e38 100644
--- a/vfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/vfs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2005-07-25  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
+	* extfs/urar.in: Remove month translation and year windowing -
+	they are better handled by mc.  Use more robust date format.
+	Set locale to C.
+
 	* extfs/uzip.in: Preserve seconds.  Avoid month translation - it
 	only slows down processing.
 
diff --git a/vfs/extfs/urar.in b/vfs/extfs/urar.in
index 0493f3100..db2a9ba1c 100644
--- a/vfs/extfs/urar.in
+++ b/vfs/extfs/urar.in
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ done
 
 mcrarfs_list ()
 {
-     $UNRAR v -c- "$1" | @AWK@ -v uid=${UID-0} '
-BEGIN { flag=0; date="JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec" }
+     $UNRAR v -c- "$1" | @AWK@ -v uid=`id -u` -v gid=`id -g` '
+BEGIN { flag=0 }
 /^-------/ { flag++; if (flag > 1) exit 0; next }
 {
 if (flag == 0) next
@@ -34,16 +34,12 @@ else {
     if (str ~ /^\^/)
 	str=substr(str, 2)
     split($4, a, "-")
-    if (a[3] < 50)
-	a[3] = 2000 + a[3]
-    else
-	a[3] = 1900 + a[3]
     if (index($6, "D") != 0)
 	$6="drwxr-xr-x"
     else
 	if (index($6, ".") != 0)
 	    $6="-rw-r--r--"
-    printf "%s   1 %-8d %-8d %8d %3s %2d %4d %s %s\n", $6, uid, 0, $1, substr(date, (a[2]-1)*3+1, 3), a[1], a[3], $5, str
+    printf "%s 1 %s %s %d %02d/%02d/%02d %s %s\n", $6, uid, gid, $1, a[2], a[1], a[3], $5, str
 }
 }'
 }
@@ -93,15 +89,18 @@ mcrarfs_rm ()
     $RAR d "$1" "$2" >/dev/null
 }
 
+LC_ALL=C
+export LC_ALL
+
 umask 077
 
 cmd="$1"
 shift
 
 case "$cmd" in
-  list)    mcrarfs_list    "$@" | sort -k 10 ;; # rar lists directories
-					     # after files, so sort names
-					     # to prevent duplication
+  # Workaround for a bug in mc - directories must precede files to
+  # avoid duplicate entries, so we sort output by filenames
+  list)    mcrarfs_list    "$@" | sort -k 8 ;;
   rm)      mcrarfs_rm      "$@" ;;
   rmdir)   mcrarfs_rm      "$@" ;;
   mkdir)   mcrarfs_mkdir   "$@" ;;