diff --git a/vfs/ChangeLog b/vfs/ChangeLog
index 53d5722cc..6d106fedf 100644
--- a/vfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/vfs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-09-18  Pavel Machek  <pavel@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
+
+	* extfs/patchfs (LC_TIME): patch by Martin Bialasinski:
+	override locale for dates
+
 2000-09-14  Pavel Machek  <pavel@bug.ucw.cz>
 
 	* vfs.c, extfs/{a,extfs.ini} Improved /#a filesystem
diff --git a/vfs/extfs/patchfs b/vfs/extfs/patchfs
index 12a7490df..c9bfc0702 100644
--- a/vfs/extfs/patchfs
+++ b/vfs/extfs/patchfs
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 # Peter Daum <gator@cs.tu-berlin.de> (Jan 1998, mc-4.1.22)
 
+# override any locale for dates
+unset LC_ALL
+LC_TIME=C
+export LC_TIME
+
 # paths to used programs:
 ncat=cat                  # regular cat
 zcat=zcat                 # gunzip to stdout