[Bug: 21.4.19] dired does not work properly anymore

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Michael Sperber writes:

 > Now that's a bit extreme.

To be sure.

 > The main problem is the output from ls via ftp, which we have no
 > control over.

True, and we need to deal with that somehow.  However, for local
directories and TRAMP connections we can (usually) set LC_TIME, and
it's worth doing that because it simplifies things a lot.