diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2ca863d7869bc3648929d9ea014dca6267a8e432..d6292ec882e15084f53dfacb41b3e033255801f4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 version 0.9.7 -- UNRELEASED
     backupninja changes
 	 . fix bug in reportspace, thanks Dan Garthwaite
+	 . do not assume English locale when using date (Closes: #465837)
     handler changes
 	maildir:
 	 . fix location of deleted_on file
diff --git a/src/backupninja.in b/src/backupninja.in
index 25f4e1140b3f8f8e6cc23a5928a9904e7a364ed3..6dee3b6163c4920a06e34f95c0e3ebe831277272 100755
--- a/src/backupninja.in
+++ b/src/backupninja.in
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ function printmsg() {
 
 function logmsg() {
 	if [ -w "$logfile" ]; then
-		echo -e `date "+%h %d %H:%M:%S"` "$@" >> $logfile
+		echo -e `LC_ALL=C date "+%h %d %H:%M:%S"` "$@" >> $logfile
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ function toint() {
 
 # we grab the current time once, since processing
 # all the configs might take more than an hour.
-nowtime=`date +%H`
-nowday=`date +%d`
-nowdayofweek=`date +%A`
+nowtime=`LC_ALL=C date +%H`
+nowday=`LC_ALL=C date +%d`
+nowdayofweek=`LC_ALL=C date +%A`
 nowdayofweek=`tolower "$nowdayofweek"`
 
 function isnow() {