diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f4ecb1d64..7f6162cbb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Noteworthy changes in version 2.4.4 (unreleased)
 ------------------------------------------------
 
+  * Fix garbled time output in non-English Windows.  [T6741]
+
   Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6578
 
 
diff --git a/common/gettime.c b/common/gettime.c
index 3f1ce0c5a..136c47ca7 100644
--- a/common/gettime.c
+++ b/common/gettime.c
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ asctimestamp (u32 stamp)
          * 2018 has a lot of additional support but that will for sure
          * break other things.  We should move to ISO strings to get
          * rid of such problems.  */
-        setlocale (LC_TIME, "");
+        setlocale (LC_TIME, ".UTF8");
         done = 1;
         /* log_debug ("LC_ALL  now '%s'\n", setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL)); */
         /* log_debug ("LC_TIME now '%s'\n", setlocale (LC_TIME, NULL)); */