POSIX wrote:

: LC_TIME   This variable shall determine the format and
:           contents of date and time strings when the -v
:           option is specified.

Developers took this wrong.  LC_TIME specifies the locale
name, not the ``format'' argument of strftime().

Oops:
	pax -w -f /tmp/foo /dev/null
	LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO_8859-1 pax -v -f /tmp/foo

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/bin/pax/pax.c b/bin/pax/pax.c
index 7bcc81e..641d53f 100644
--- a/bin/pax/pax.c
+++ b/bin/pax/pax.c
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ int	pids;			/* preserve file uid/gid */
 int	exit_val;		/* exit value */
 int	docrc;			/* check/create file crc */
 char	*dirptr;		/* destination dir in a copy */
-char	*ltmfrmt;		/* -v locale time format (if any) */
 char	*argv0;			/* root of argv[0] */
 sigset_t s_mask;		/* signal mask for cleanup critical sect */
 
@@ -350,13 +349,6 @@ gen_init()
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Handle posix locale
-	 *
-	 * set user defines time printing format for -v option
-	 */
-	ltmfrmt = getenv("LC_TIME");
-
-	/*
 	 * signal handling to reset stored directory times and modes. Since
 	 * we deal with broken pipes via failed writes we ignore it. We also
 	 * deal with any file size limit thorugh failed writes. Cpu time