diff --git a/dnsapi/dns_me.sh b/dnsapi/dns_me.sh
index 58c3a230..3b587223 100644
--- a/dnsapi/dns_me.sh
+++ b/dnsapi/dns_me.sh
@@ -134,10 +134,7 @@ _me_rest() {
   data="$3"
   _debug "$ep"
 
-  cdate=$(
-    LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
-    LANG=C date -u +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z"
-  )
+  cdate=$(LC_TIME='en_US.utf8' LANG='C' date -u +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z")
 
   hmac=$(printf "%s" "$cdate" | _hmac sha1 "$(printf "%s" "$ME_Secret" | _hex_dump | tr -d " ")" hex)