Remove setlocale usage from the backend

Using setlocale in the backend is bound to lead to frontend issues
and we have have been using epoch in our databases since April 2007
(commit 47622eef).  Remove support for old style times.

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c
index 1e213627..f1f760a5 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/util.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
-#include <locale.h> /* setlocale */
 #include <fnmatch.h>
 
 /* libarchive */
@@ -1169,20 +1168,6 @@ alpm_time_t _alpm_parsedate(const char *line)
 	long long result;
 	errno = 0;
 
-	if(isalpha((unsigned char)line[0])) {
-		const char *oldlocale;
-		/* initialize to null in case of failure */
-		struct tm tmp_tm;
-		memset(&tmp_tm, 0, sizeof(struct tm));
-
-		oldlocale = setlocale(LC_TIME, NULL);
-		setlocale(LC_TIME, "C");
-		strptime(line, "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", &tmp_tm);
-		setlocale(LC_TIME, oldlocale);
-
-		return (alpm_time_t)mktime(&tmp_tm);
-	}
-
 	result = strtoll(line, &end, 10);
 	if(result == 0 && end == line) {
 		/* line was not a number */