diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index d0b07535..178a72ec 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ date_today <- function() {
 date_as_rfc_2822 <- function(date) {
   date <- as.Date(date, tz = "UTC")
   with_locale(
-    new = c("LC_TIME" = "en_US.UTF-8"),
+    new = c("LC_TIME" = ifelse(is_windows(), "English", "en_US.UTF-8")),
     as.character(date, format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", tz = "UTC")
   )
 }
@@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ is_osx <- function() {
   Sys.info()["sysname"] == "Darwin"
 }
 
+is_windows <- function() {
+  .Platform$OS.type == "windows"
+}
+
 # function for resolving resources
 distill_resource <- function(name) {
   system.file("rmarkdown/templates/distill_article/resources", name,