diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a4405e6..b3d4244 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-05-22  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
+
+	* morituri/result/logger.py:
+	  Always write strftime in C locale.  Fixes second bug
+	  mentioned in #49.
+
 2011-05-21  Thomas Vander Stichele  <thomas at apestaart dot org>
 
 	* morituri/common/checksum.py:
diff --git a/morituri/result/logger.py b/morituri/result/logger.py
index f0eb187..16f2eda 100644
--- a/morituri/result/logger.py
+++ b/morituri/result/logger.py
@@ -39,7 +39,12 @@ class MorituriLogger(object):
         ### global
 
         lines.append("Logfile created by: morituri %s" % configure.version)
+        # FIXME: when we localize this, see #49 to handle unicode properly.
+        import locale
+        old = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'C')
         date = time.strftime("%b %d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(epoch))
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, old)
         lines.append("Logfile created on: %s" % date)
         lines.append("")