diff --git a/openerp/tests/test_misc.py b/openerp/tests/test_misc.py
index 2f2e99c18d2..8ee7bffc0d0 100644
--- a/openerp/tests/test_misc.py
+++ b/openerp/tests/test_misc.py
@@ -41,14 +41,29 @@ class test_countingstream(unittest2.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(s.index, 0)
 
 class TestPosixToBabel(unittest2.TestCase):
+    """
+    Attempts to compare the output of formatting a specific date using various
+    patterns under strftime and babel. As a result, they need to use the same
+    locale.
+    """
     def setUp(self):
         super(TestPosixToBabel, self).setUp()
-        self.d = datetime.datetime(2007, 9, 8, 4, 5, 1)
+        # use a somewhat non-standard locale
+        self.test_locale = 'tr_TR'
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, self.test_locale)
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, self.test_locale)
+        self.d = datetime.datetime(2007, 9, 7, 4, 5, 1)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        super(TestPosixToBabel, self).tearDown()
+        (code, encoding) = locale.getdefaultlocale()
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, code)
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, code)
 
     def assert_eq(self, fmt, d=None):
         if d is None: d = self.d
 
-        locale = babel.Locale.default('LC_TIME')
+        locale = babel.Locale(self.test_locale)
         ldml_format = misc.posix_to_ldml(fmt, locale=locale)
         self.assertEqual(
             d.strftime(fmt),
@@ -69,11 +84,7 @@ class TestPosixToBabel(unittest2.TestCase):
     def test_escape(self):
         self.assert_eq("%%m:%m %%d:%d %%y:%y")
 
-    def test_xX(self):
-        self.assert_eq('%x %X')
-
     def test_various_examples(self):
-        self.assert_eq("%x - %I:%M%p")
         self.assert_eq('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
         self.assert_eq("%Y-%j")
         self.assert_eq("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")