diff --git a/app/controllers/application.rb b/app/controllers/application.rb
index 8f3b759..33c4b9a 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application.rb
@@ -128,16 +128,6 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
       end
       RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.info('Locale reverted from %s to %s' % [old_locale, locale])
     end
-
-    # now set the system locale
-    system_locale = '%s.utf8' % locale
-    begin
-      Locale.setlocale(Locale::LC_TIME, system_locale)
-    rescue Exception => e
-      # fallback to C
-      RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.info("Locale #{system_locale} not available, falling back to the portable \"C\" locale (consider installing the #{system_locale} locale in your system)")
-      Locale.setlocale(Locale::LC_TIME, 'C')
-    end
   end
 
   def load_category
diff --git a/config/environment.rb b/config/environment.rb
index 33cdfe2..91c4830 100644
--- a/config/environment.rb
+++ b/config/environment.rb
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ Noosfero.locales = {
 }
 # if you want to override this, do it in config/local.rb !
 Noosfero.default_locale = 'en'
-require 'locale.so'
 
 Tag.hierarchical = true
 
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