diff -ru gnome-commander/src/utils.cc gnome-commander-548947/src/utils.cc
--- gnome-commander/src/utils.cc	2008-09-03 18:21:22.000000000 +0200
+++ gnome-commander-548947/src/utils.cc	2008-09-04 12:20:49.956973500 +0200
@@ -426,6 +426,13 @@
     localtime_r (&t, &lt);
     strftime (buf, sizeof(buf), date_format, &lt);
 
+    // Convert formatted date from current locale to UTF8. 
+    gchar *loc_date = g_locale_to_utf8 (buf, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+    if (loc_date)
+        strncpy (buf, loc_date, sizeof(buf)-1);
+
+    g_free (loc_date);
+
     return buf;
 }
 
