Problem: After introducing of LC_TIME_NAMES variable,  the 
function date_format() can return international non-ascii
characters in month and weekday names. Thus, it cannot return
a binary string anymore, because inserting a result of date_format()
into a column with non-utf8 character set produces garbage.
Fix: date_format() now returns a character string, using
"collation_connection" to detect character set and collation
for the returned value. This allows to insert
results of date_format() properly into columns with
various character sets.