hwclock prints time in wrong format (is locale ignored?)

[psl]

Binary package hint: util-linux

Ubuntu 8.04; Ubuntu 9.10; Fedora 12; CentOS 5.3; ArchLinux, etc

I think that hwclock ignores locales and prints time in its own format. Compare output from hwclock and date:

$ date; hwclock

Sun Dec 20 13:59:53 CET 2009
Sun 20 Dec 2009 01:59:54 PM CET -0.469439 seconds

From my point of view, correct output should be similar from both commands, like this:

$ date; hwclock

Sun Dec 20 13:59:53 CET 2009
Sun Dec 20 13:59:53 CET 2009 -0.469439 seconds

One more example, I set TZ in this case:

$ export TZ=UTC
$ date; hwclock
Sun Dec 20 13:02:12 UTC 2009
Sun 20 Dec 2009 01:02:13 PM UTC -0.406637 seconds

Why "PM" is printed in hwclock output and why output is in 12h format and not in 24h format?
I am in CZ, my timezone is set to Europe/Prague, we use 24h time format here.

[psl (slansky)]

I noticed that I see the same format used by hwclock at different place too. When I try to login with bad password to my Ubuntu box, I see at next successful login message like this:

1 failure since last login
Last was Sun 20 Dec 2009 03:21:04 PM CET on tty1

Time format in this login report is the same as reported by hwclock; 12h format at system that uses 24h format. Is this correct? I think I would like to see this:
Last was Sun 20 Dec 2009 15:21:04 CET on tty1