Hi there.

When one uses strftime(3) to get a date string formated
according to one's need, locale is not taken into account:
the week day and month name are still in English.

When one strace(1) a process that uses strftime(3), one can
see that no access is done to open locale files.

Examination of the source of strftime in glibc2 shows that
the problem comes probably of a bad configuration of the
GLIBC since strftime.c seems to be able to get locale thru
_NL_CURRENT macro if correctly compiled.

I did not report the bug to FSF/GNU yet because of that.

Example of program showing the bug:

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  time_t Now=time(NULL);
  struct tm MyTm;
  char String[100];

  memcpy(&MyTm,locatime(&Now),sizeof(struct tm));
  strftime(String,sizeof(String)-1,"%A",&MyTm);
  printf("String=[%s]\n",String);
}

Run this program with LC_TIME=fr_FR (for instance) and
you'll see still English output.

strace this program and you'll see no file opened to get
the locale.

Same problem with RedHat 6.1

Thanks for your help.