diff --git a/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_open_db.sh b/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_open_db.sh
index 994700ff24d0263b26b822df5f903e668eb716c5..6c3dab269514392436882b5a41cdafec767488ef 100755
--- a/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_open_db.sh
+++ b/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_open_db.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if [ -z $database ]; then
   return
 fi
 
-export LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
+export LC_TIME="en_US"
 export LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
 
 echo "-- Opening volume '$database'"
diff --git a/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_start.sh b/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_start.sh
index ecaaf9c52b894ec7716ff2a29d6696c7471a29d4..f8715e4d11072992bf0a785ad1281e40d2b98165 100755
--- a/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_start.sh
+++ b/wb/exp/com/src/os_linux/wb_start.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ username=$1
 password=$2
 volume=$3
 
-export LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
+export LC_TIME="en_US"
 export LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
 
 wb $username $password $volume $4 $5 $6 $7