Date can dish it out, but not parse it back in, for other languages: $ date 五 1月 16 00:49:11 CST 2009 $ date|date -f - 五 1月 16 00:00:00 CST 2009 $ LC_ALL=C date|date -f - 五 1月 16 00:49:26 CST 2009 $ locale LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_TIME="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_NAME="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_TW.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ date --version date (GNU coreutils) 6.10
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