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

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/bin/pax/extern.h b/bin/pax/extern.h
index 2b062cb..5f7625e 100644
--- a/bin/pax/extern.h
+++ b/bin/pax/extern.h
@@ -223,7 +223,6 @@ extern int pids;
 extern int exit_val;
 extern int docrc;
 extern char *dirptr;
-extern char *ltmfrmt;
 extern char *argv0;
 int main __P((int, char **));
 void sig_cleanup __P((int));
diff --git a/bin/pax/gen_subs.c b/bin/pax/gen_subs.c
index 83cfdc5..bd04aa8 100644
--- a/bin/pax/gen_subs.c
+++ b/bin/pax/gen_subs.c
@@ -106,17 +106,13 @@ ls_list(arcn, now)
 	sbp = &(arcn->sb);
 	strmode(sbp->st_mode, f_mode);
 
-	if (ltmfrmt == NULL) {
-		/*
-		 * no locale specified format. time format based on age
-		 * compared to the time pax was started.
-		 */
-		if ((sbp->st_mtime + SIXMONTHS) <= now)
-			timefrmt = OLDFRMT;
-		else
-			timefrmt = CURFRMT;
-	} else
-		timefrmt = ltmfrmt;
+	/*
+	 * time format based on age compared to the time pax was started.
+	 */
+	if ((sbp->st_mtime + SIXMONTHS) <= now)
+		timefrmt = OLDFRMT;
+	else
+		timefrmt = CURFRMT;
 
 	/*
 	 * print file mode, link count, uid, gid and time
@@ -178,16 +174,10 @@ ls_tty(arcn)
 	char f_mode[MODELEN];
 	char *timefrmt;
 
-	if (ltmfrmt == NULL) {
-		/*
-		 * no locale specified format
-		 */
-		if ((arcn->sb.st_mtime + SIXMONTHS) <= time((time_t *)NULL))
-			timefrmt = OLDFRMT;
-		else
-			timefrmt = CURFRMT;
-	} else
-		timefrmt = ltmfrmt;
+	if ((arcn->sb.st_mtime + SIXMONTHS) <= time((time_t *)NULL))
+		timefrmt = OLDFRMT;
+	else
+		timefrmt = CURFRMT;
 
 	/*
 	 * convert time to string, and print
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