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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 //               so long as the above copyright and this permission statement
 //               are retained in all copies.
 //
-// Licence:     wxWindows license
+// Licence:     wxWindows licence
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 /*
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 // headers
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#ifdef __GNUG__
+#if defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(NO_GCC_PRAGMA)
     #pragma implementation "datetime.h"
 #endif
 
     #pragma hdrstop
 #endif
 
+#if !defined(wxUSE_DATETIME) || wxUSE_DATETIME
+
 #ifndef WX_PRECOMP
     #include "wx/string.h"
-    #include "wx/intl.h"
     #include "wx/log.h"
 #endif // WX_PRECOMP
 
+#include "wx/intl.h"
 #include "wx/thread.h"
 #include "wx/tokenzr.h"
+#include "wx/module.h"
 
-#define wxDEFINE_TIME_CONSTANTS // before including datetime.h
+#include <ctype.h>
 
 #include "wx/datetime.h"
+#include "wx/stopwatch.h"           // for wxGetLocalTimeMillis()
+
+const long wxDateTime::TIME_T_FACTOR = 1000l;
+
+#if wxUSE_EXTENDED_RTTI
+
+template<> void wxStringReadValue(const wxString &s , wxDateTime &data )
+{
+    data.ParseFormat(s,wxT("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")) ;
+}
+
+template<> void wxStringWriteValue(wxString &s , const wxDateTime &data )
+{
+    s = data.Format(wxT("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")) ;
+}
+
+wxCUSTOM_TYPE_INFO(wxDateTime, wxToStringConverter<wxDateTime> , wxFromStringConverter<wxDateTime>)
+
+#endif
 
+//
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // conditional compilation
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#if defined(HAVE_STRPTIME) && defined(__LINUX__)
+#if defined(HAVE_STRPTIME) && defined(__GLIBC__) && \
+        ((__GLIBC__ == 2) && (__GLIBC_MINOR__ == 0))
     // glibc 2.0.7 strptime() is broken - the following snippet causes it to
     // crash (instead of just failing):
     //
     #undef HAVE_STRPTIME
 #endif // broken strptime()
 
-#ifndef WX_TIMEZONE
+#if defined(__MWERKS__) && wxUSE_UNICODE
+    #include <wtime.h>
+#endif
+
+#if !defined(WX_TIMEZONE) && !defined(WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM)
     #if defined(__BORLANDC__) || defined(__MINGW32__) || defined(__VISAGECPP__)
         #define WX_TIMEZONE _timezone
+    #elif defined(__MWERKS__)
+        long wxmw_timezone = 28800;
+        #define WX_TIMEZONE wxmw_timezone
+    #elif defined(__DJGPP__) || defined(__WINE__)
+        #include <sys/timeb.h>
+        #include <values.h>
+        static long wxGetTimeZone()
+        {
+            static long timezone = MAXLONG; // invalid timezone
+            if (timezone == MAXLONG)
+            {
+                struct timeb tb;
+                ftime(&tb);
+                timezone = tb.timezone;
+            }
+            return timezone;
+        }
+        #define WX_TIMEZONE wxGetTimeZone()
+    #elif defined(__DARWIN__)
+        #define WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
     #else // unknown platform - try timezone
         #define WX_TIMEZONE timezone
     #endif
-#endif // !WX_TIMEZONE
+#endif // !WX_TIMEZONE && !WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// macros
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// debugging helper: just a convenient replacement of wxCHECK()
+#define wxDATETIME_CHECK(expr, msg)     \
+        if ( !(expr) )                  \
+        {                               \
+            wxFAIL_MSG(msg);            \
+            *this = wxInvalidDateTime;  \
+            return *this;               \
+        }
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// private classes
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class wxDateTimeHolidaysModule : public wxModule
+{
+public:
+    virtual bool OnInit()
+    {
+        wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::AddAuthority(new wxDateTimeWorkDays);
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    virtual void OnExit()
+    {
+        wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ClearAllAuthorities();
+        wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ms_authorities.clear();
+    }
+
+private:
+    DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxDateTimeHolidaysModule)
+};
+
+IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxDateTimeHolidaysModule, wxModule)
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // constants
 // some trivial ones
 static const int MONTHS_IN_YEAR = 12;
 
-static const int SECONDS_IN_MINUTE = 60;
+static const int SEC_PER_MIN = 60;
+
+static const int MIN_PER_HOUR = 60;
+
+static const int HOURS_PER_DAY = 24;
 
 static const long SECONDS_PER_DAY = 86400l;
 
+static const int DAYS_PER_WEEK = 7;
+
 static const long MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY = 86400000l;
 
 // this is the integral part of JDN of the midnight of Jan 1, 1970
@@ -140,25 +233,27 @@ static const wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t gs_cumulatedDays[2][MONTHS_IN_YEAR] =
 // global data
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-static wxDateTime gs_dtDefault;
-
-wxDateTime& wxDefaultDateTime = gs_dtDefault;
+// in the fine tradition of ANSI C we use our equivalent of (time_t)-1 to
+// indicate an invalid wxDateTime object
+const wxDateTime wxDefaultDateTime;
 
 wxDateTime::Country wxDateTime::ms_country = wxDateTime::Country_Unknown;
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// private globals
+// private functions
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-// a critical section is needed to protect GetTimeZone() static
-// variable in MT case
-#if wxUSE_THREADS
-    static wxCriticalSection gs_critsectTimezone;
-#endif // wxUSE_THREADS
+// debugger helper: shows what the date really is
+#ifdef __WXDEBUG__
+extern const wxChar *wxDumpDate(const wxDateTime* dt)
+{
+    static wxChar buf[128];
+
+    wxStrcpy(buf, dt->Format(_T("%Y-%m-%d (%a) %H:%M:%S")));
 
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// private functions
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    return buf;
+}
+#endif // Debug
 
 // get the number of days in the given month of the given year
 static inline
@@ -175,25 +270,36 @@ wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t GetNumOfDaysInMonth(int year, wxDateTime::Month month)
     return daysInMonth[wxDateTime::IsLeapYear(year)][month];
 }
 
-// ensure that the timezone variable is set by calling localtime
+// returns the time zone in the C sense, i.e. the difference UTC - local
+// (in seconds)
 static int GetTimeZone()
 {
-    // set to TRUE when the timezone is set
-    static bool s_timezoneSet = FALSE;
-
-    wxCRIT_SECT_LOCKER(lock, gs_critsectTimezone);
+#ifdef WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
+    // set to true when the timezone is set
+    static bool s_timezoneSet = false;
+    static long gmtoffset = LONG_MAX; // invalid timezone
 
+    // ensure that the timezone variable is set by calling localtime
     if ( !s_timezoneSet )
     {
         // just call localtime() instead of figuring out whether this system
         // supports tzset(), _tzset() or something else
-        time_t t;
-        (void)localtime(&t);
+        time_t t = 0;
+        struct tm *tm;
 
-        s_timezoneSet = TRUE;
+        tm = localtime(&t);
+        s_timezoneSet = true;
+
+        // note that GMT offset is the opposite of time zone and so to return
+        // consistent results in both WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM and !WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
+        // cases we have to negate it
+        gmtoffset = -tm->tm_gmtoff;
     }
 
+    return (int)gmtoffset;
+#else // !WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
     return (int)WX_TIMEZONE;
+#endif // WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM/!WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
 }
 
 // return the integral part of the JDN for the midnight of the given date (to
@@ -236,7 +342,7 @@ static long GetTruncatedJDN(wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t day,
             - JDN_OFFSET;
 }
 
-// this function is a wrapper around strftime(3)
+// this function is a wrapper around strftime(3) adding error checking
 static wxString CallStrftime(const wxChar *format, const tm* tm)
 {
     wxChar buf[4096];
@@ -249,6 +355,41 @@ static wxString CallStrftime(const wxChar *format, const tm* tm)
     return wxString(buf);
 }
 
+#ifdef HAVE_STRPTIME
+
+// glibc2 doesn't define this in the headers unless _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined
+// which, unfortunately, wreaks havoc elsewhere
+#if defined(__GLIBC__) && (__GLIBC__ == 2)
+    extern "C" char *strptime(const char *, const char *, struct tm *);
+#endif
+
+// Unicode-friendly strptime() wrapper
+static const wxChar *
+CallStrptime(const wxChar *input, const char *fmt, tm *tm)
+{
+    // the problem here is that strptime() returns pointer into the string we
+    // passed to it while we're really interested in the pointer into the
+    // original, Unicode, string so we try to transform the pointer back
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE
+    wxCharBuffer inputMB(wxConvertWX2MB(input));
+#else // ASCII
+    const char * const inputMB = input;
+#endif // Unicode/Ascii
+
+    const char *result = strptime(inputMB, fmt, tm);
+    if ( !result )
+        return NULL;
+
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE
+    // FIXME: this is wrong in presence of surrogates &c
+    return input + (result - inputMB.data());
+#else // ASCII
+    return result;
+#endif // Unicode/Ascii
+}
+
+#endif // HAVE_STRPTIME
+
 // if year and/or month have invalid values, replace them with the current ones
 static void ReplaceDefaultYearMonthWithCurrent(int *year,
                                                wxDateTime::Month *month)
@@ -346,16 +487,20 @@ static wxDateTime::WeekDay GetWeekDayFromName(const wxString& name, int flags)
     return wd;
 }
 
-// scans all digits and returns the resulting number
-static bool GetNumericToken(const wxChar*& p, unsigned long *number)
+// scans all digits (but no more than len) and returns the resulting number
+static bool GetNumericToken(size_t len, const wxChar*& p, unsigned long *number)
 {
+    size_t n = 1;
     wxString s;
     while ( wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
         s += *p++;
+
+        if ( len && ++n > len )
+            break;
     }
 
-    return !!s && s.ToULong(number);
+    return !s.empty() && s.ToULong(number);
 }
 
 // scans all alphabetic characters and returns the resulting string
@@ -391,14 +536,14 @@ wxDateTime::Tm::Tm(const struct tm& tm, const TimeZone& tz)
               : m_tz(tz)
 {
     msec = 0;
-    sec = tm.tm_sec;
-    min = tm.tm_min;
-    hour = tm.tm_hour;
-    mday = tm.tm_mday;
+    sec = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)tm.tm_sec;
+    min = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)tm.tm_min;
+    hour = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)tm.tm_hour;
+    mday = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)tm.tm_mday;
     mon = (wxDateTime::Month)tm.tm_mon;
     year = 1900 + tm.tm_year;
-    wday = tm.tm_wday;
-    yday = tm.tm_yday;
+    wday = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)tm.tm_wday;
+    yday = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)tm.tm_yday;
 }
 
 bool wxDateTime::Tm::IsValid() const
@@ -414,7 +559,7 @@ void wxDateTime::Tm::ComputeWeekDay()
     // compute the week day from day/month/year: we use the dumbest algorithm
     // possible: just compute our JDN and then use the (simple to derive)
     // formula: weekday = (JDN + 1.5) % 7
-    wday = (wxDateTime::WeekDay)(GetTruncatedJDN(mday, mon, year) + 2) % 7;
+    wday = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)((wxDateTime::WeekDay)(GetTruncatedJDN(mday, mon, year) + 2) % 7);
 }
 
 void wxDateTime::Tm::AddMonths(int monDiff)
@@ -437,6 +582,9 @@ void wxDateTime::Tm::AddMonths(int monDiff)
     mon = (wxDateTime::Month)(mon + monDiff);
 
     wxASSERT_MSG( mon >= 0 && mon < MONTHS_IN_YEAR, _T("logic error") );
+
+    // NB: we don't check here that the resulting date is valid, this function
+    //     is private and the caller must check it if needed
 }
 
 void wxDateTime::Tm::AddDays(int dayDiff)
@@ -449,7 +597,7 @@ void wxDateTime::Tm::AddDays(int dayDiff)
         dayDiff += GetNumOfDaysInMonth(year, mon);
     }
 
-    mday += dayDiff;
+    mday = (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)( mday + dayDiff );
     while ( mday > GetNumOfDaysInMonth(year, mon) )
     {
         mday -= GetNumOfDaysInMonth(year, mon);
@@ -543,7 +691,7 @@ bool wxDateTime::IsLeapYear(int year, wxDateTime::Calendar cal)
     {
         wxFAIL_MSG(_T("unknown calendar"));
 
-        return FALSE;
+        return false;
     }
 }
 
@@ -669,10 +817,12 @@ wxString wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName(wxDateTime::WeekDay wday,
 {
     wxCHECK_MSG( wday != Inv_WeekDay, _T(""), _T("invalid weekday") );
 
-    // take some arbitrary Sunday
+    // take some arbitrary Sunday (but notice that the day should be such that
+    // after adding wday to it below we still have a valid date, e.g. don't
+    // take 28 here!)
     tm tm;
     InitTm(tm);
-    tm.tm_mday = 28;
+    tm.tm_mday = 21;
     tm.tm_mon = Nov;
     tm.tm_year = 99;
 
@@ -691,14 +841,29 @@ void wxDateTime::GetAmPmStrings(wxString *am, wxString *pm)
 {
     tm tm;
     InitTm(tm);
+    wxChar buffer[64];
+    // @Note: Do not call 'CallStrftime' here! CallStrftime checks the return code
+    // and causes an assertion failed if the buffer is to small (which is good) - OR -
+    // if strftime does not return anything because the format string is invalid - OR -
+    // if there are no 'am' / 'pm' tokens defined for the current locale (which is not good).
+    // wxDateTime::ParseTime will try several different formats to parse the time.
+    // As a result, GetAmPmStrings might get called, even if the current locale
+    // does not define any 'am' / 'pm' tokens. In this case, wxStrftime would
+    // assert, even though it is a perfectly legal use.
     if ( am )
     {
-        *am = CallStrftime(_T("%p"), &tm);
+        if (wxStrftime(buffer, sizeof buffer, _T("%p"), &tm) > 0)
+            *am = wxString(buffer);
+        else
+            *am = wxString();
     }
     if ( pm )
     {
         tm.tm_hour = 13;
-        *pm = CallStrftime(_T("%p"), &tm);
+        if (wxStrftime(buffer, sizeof buffer, _T("%p"), &tm) > 0)
+            *pm = wxString(buffer);
+        else
+            *pm = wxString();
     }
 }
 
@@ -837,7 +1002,7 @@ wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetBeginDST(int year, Country country)
         dt += wxTimeSpan::Hours(1);
 
         // disable DST tests because it could result in an infinite recursion!
-        dt.MakeGMT(TRUE);
+        dt.MakeGMT(true);
     }
     else switch ( country )
     {
@@ -938,7 +1103,7 @@ wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetEndDST(int year, Country country)
         dt += wxTimeSpan::Hours(1);
 
         // disable DST tests because it could result in an infinite recursion!
-        dt.MakeGMT(TRUE);
+        dt.MakeGMT(true);
     }
     else switch ( country )
     {
@@ -985,11 +1150,15 @@ wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetEndDST(int year, Country country)
 // constructors and assignment operators
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+// return the current time with ms precision
+/* static */ wxDateTime wxDateTime::UNow()
+{
+    return wxDateTime(wxGetLocalTimeMillis());
+}
+
 // the values in the tm structure contain the local time
 wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(const struct tm& tm)
 {
-    wxASSERT_MSG( IsValid(), _T("invalid wxDateTime") );
-
     struct tm tm2(tm);
     time_t timet = mktime(&tm2);
 
@@ -999,21 +1168,18 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(const struct tm& tm)
         // less than timezone - try to make it work for this case
         if ( tm2.tm_year == 70 && tm2.tm_mon == 0 && tm2.tm_mday == 1 )
         {
-            // add timezone to make sure that date is in range
-            tm2.tm_sec -= GetTimeZone();
-
-            timet = mktime(&tm2);
-            if ( timet != (time_t)-1 )
-            {
-                timet += GetTimeZone();
-
-                return Set(timet);
-            }
+            return Set((time_t)(
+                       GetTimeZone() +
+                       tm2.tm_hour * MIN_PER_HOUR * SEC_PER_MIN +
+                       tm2.tm_min * SEC_PER_MIN +
+                       tm2.tm_sec));
         }
 
         wxFAIL_MSG( _T("mktime() failed") );
 
-        return wxInvalidDateTime;
+        *this = wxInvalidDateTime;
+
+        return *this;
     }
     else
     {
@@ -1026,18 +1192,18 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(wxDateTime_t hour,
                             wxDateTime_t second,
                             wxDateTime_t millisec)
 {
-    wxASSERT_MSG( IsValid(), _T("invalid wxDateTime") );
-
     // we allow seconds to be 61 to account for the leap seconds, even if we
     // don't use them really
-    wxCHECK_MSG( hour < 24 && second < 62 && minute < 60 && millisec < 1000,
-                 wxInvalidDateTime,
-                 _T("Invalid time in wxDateTime::Set()") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( hour < 24 &&
+                      second < 62 &&
+                      minute < 60 &&
+                      millisec < 1000,
+                      _T("Invalid time in wxDateTime::Set()") );
 
     // get the current date from system
     struct tm *tm = GetTmNow();
 
-    wxCHECK_MSG( tm, wxInvalidDateTime, _T("localtime() failed") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( tm, _T("localtime() failed") );
 
     // adjust the time
     tm->tm_hour = hour;
@@ -1058,17 +1224,16 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(wxDateTime_t day,
                             wxDateTime_t second,
                             wxDateTime_t millisec)
 {
-    wxASSERT_MSG( IsValid(), _T("invalid wxDateTime") );
-
-    wxCHECK_MSG( hour < 24 && second < 62 && minute < 60 && millisec < 1000,
-                 wxInvalidDateTime,
-                 _T("Invalid time in wxDateTime::Set()") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( hour < 24 &&
+                      second < 62 &&
+                      minute < 60 &&
+                      millisec < 1000,
+                      _T("Invalid time in wxDateTime::Set()") );
 
     ReplaceDefaultYearMonthWithCurrent(&year, &month);
 
-    wxCHECK_MSG( (0 < day) && (day <= GetNumberOfDays(month, year)),
-                 wxInvalidDateTime,
-                 _T("Invalid date in wxDateTime::Set()") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( (0 < day) && (day <= GetNumberOfDays(month, year)),
+                      _T("Invalid date in wxDateTime::Set()") );
 
     // the range of time_t type (inclusive)
     static const int yearMinInRange = 1970;
@@ -1092,7 +1257,10 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(wxDateTime_t day,
         (void)Set(tm);
 
         // and finally adjust milliseconds
-        return SetMillisecond(millisec);
+        if (IsValid())
+            SetMillisecond(millisec);
+
+        return *this;
     }
     else
     {
@@ -1119,6 +1287,17 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(double jdn)
 
     jdn *= MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY;
 
+    // JDNs always suppose an UTC date, so bring it back to local time zone
+    // (also see GetJulianDayNumber() implementation)
+    long tzDiff = GetTimeZone();
+    if ( IsDST() == 1 )
+    {
+        // FIXME: again, we suppose that DST is always one hour
+        tzDiff -= 3600;
+    }
+
+    jdn += tzDiff*1000; // tzDiff is in seconds
+
     m_time.Assign(jdn);
 
     return *this;
@@ -1141,6 +1320,83 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::ResetTime()
     return *this;
 }
 
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// DOS Date and Time Format functions
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// the dos date and time value is an unsigned 32 bit value in the format:
+// YYYYYYYMMMMDDDDDhhhhhmmmmmmsssss
+//
+// Y = year offset from 1980 (0-127)
+// M = month (1-12)
+// D = day of month (1-31)
+// h = hour (0-23)
+// m = minute (0-59)
+// s = bisecond (0-29) each bisecond indicates two seconds
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetFromDOS(unsigned long ddt)
+{
+    struct tm tm;
+    InitTm(tm);
+
+    long year = ddt & 0xFE000000;
+    year >>= 25;
+    year += 80;
+    tm.tm_year = year;
+
+    long month = ddt & 0x1E00000;
+    month >>= 21;
+    month -= 1;
+    tm.tm_mon = month;
+
+    long day = ddt & 0x1F0000;
+    day >>= 16;
+    tm.tm_mday = day;
+
+    long hour = ddt & 0xF800;
+    hour >>= 11;
+    tm.tm_hour = hour;
+
+    long minute = ddt & 0x7E0;
+    minute >>= 5;
+    tm.tm_min = minute;
+
+    long second = ddt & 0x1F;
+    tm.tm_sec = second * 2;
+
+    return Set(mktime(&tm));
+}
+
+unsigned long wxDateTime::GetAsDOS() const
+{
+    unsigned long ddt;
+    time_t ticks = GetTicks();
+    struct tm *tm = localtime(&ticks);
+
+    long year = tm->tm_year;
+    year -= 80;
+    year <<= 25;
+
+    long month = tm->tm_mon;
+    month += 1;
+    month <<= 21;
+
+    long day = tm->tm_mday;
+    day <<= 16;
+
+    long hour = tm->tm_hour;
+    hour <<= 11;
+
+    long minute = tm->tm_min;
+    minute <<= 5;
+
+    long second = tm->tm_sec;
+    second /= 2;
+
+    ddt = year | month | day | hour | minute | second;
+    return ddt;
+}
+
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // time_t <-> broken down time conversions
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1160,12 +1416,12 @@ wxDateTime::Tm wxDateTime::GetTm(const TimeZone& tz) const
             tm = localtime(&time);
 
             // should never happen
-            wxCHECK_MSG( tm, Tm(), _T("gmtime() failed") );
+            wxCHECK_MSG( tm, Tm(), _T("localtime() failed") );
         }
         else
         {
             time += (time_t)tz.GetOffset();
-#ifdef __VMS__ // time is unsigned so avoid warning
+#if defined(__VMS__) || defined(__WATCOMC__) // time is unsigned so avoid warning
             int time2 = (int) time;
             if ( time2 >= 0 )
 #else
@@ -1185,7 +1441,11 @@ wxDateTime::Tm wxDateTime::GetTm(const TimeZone& tz) const
 
         if ( tm )
         {
-            return Tm(*tm, tz);
+            // adjust the milliseconds
+            Tm tm2(*tm, tz);
+            long timeOnly = (m_time % MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY).ToLong();
+            tm2.msec = (wxDateTime_t)(timeOnly % 1000);
+            return tm2;
         }
         //else: use generic code below
     }
@@ -1217,18 +1477,18 @@ wxDateTime::Tm wxDateTime::GetTm(const TimeZone& tz) const
     wxASSERT_MSG( jdn > -2, _T("JDN out of range") );
 
     // calculate the century
-    int temp = (jdn + JDN_OFFSET) * 4 - 1;
-    int century = temp / DAYS_PER_400_YEARS;
+    long temp = (jdn + JDN_OFFSET) * 4 - 1;
+    long century = temp / DAYS_PER_400_YEARS;
 
     // then the year and day of year (1 <= dayOfYear <= 366)
     temp = ((temp % DAYS_PER_400_YEARS) / 4) * 4 + 3;
-    int year = (century * 100) + (temp / DAYS_PER_4_YEARS);
-    int dayOfYear = (temp % DAYS_PER_4_YEARS) / 4 + 1;
+    long year = (century * 100) + (temp / DAYS_PER_4_YEARS);
+    long dayOfYear = (temp % DAYS_PER_4_YEARS) / 4 + 1;
 
     // and finally the month and day of the month
     temp = dayOfYear * 5 - 3;
-    int month = temp / DAYS_PER_5_MONTHS;
-    int day = (temp % DAYS_PER_5_MONTHS) / 5 + 1;
+    long month = temp / DAYS_PER_5_MONTHS;
+    long day = (temp % DAYS_PER_5_MONTHS) / 5 + 1;
 
     // month is counted from March - convert to normal
     if ( month < 10 )
@@ -1247,26 +1507,24 @@ wxDateTime::Tm wxDateTime::GetTm(const TimeZone& tz) const
     // check that the algorithm gave us something reasonable
     wxASSERT_MSG( (0 < month) && (month <= 12), _T("invalid month") );
     wxASSERT_MSG( (1 <= day) && (day < 32), _T("invalid day") );
-    wxASSERT_MSG( (INT_MIN <= year) && (year <= INT_MAX),
-                  _T("year range overflow") );
 
     // construct Tm from these values
     Tm tm;
     tm.year = (int)year;
     tm.mon = (Month)(month - 1); // algorithm yields 1 for January, not 0
     tm.mday = (wxDateTime_t)day;
-    tm.msec = timeOnly % 1000;
+    tm.msec = (wxDateTime_t)(timeOnly % 1000);
     timeOnly -= tm.msec;
     timeOnly /= 1000;               // now we have time in seconds
 
-    tm.sec = timeOnly % 60;
+    tm.sec = (wxDateTime_t)(timeOnly % 60);
     timeOnly -= tm.sec;
     timeOnly /= 60;                 // now we have time in minutes
 
-    tm.min = timeOnly % 60;
+    tm.min = (wxDateTime_t)(timeOnly % 60);
     timeOnly -= tm.min;
 
-    tm.hour = timeOnly / 60;
+    tm.hour = (wxDateTime_t)(timeOnly / 60);
 
     return tm;
 }
@@ -1358,6 +1616,20 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Add(const wxDateSpan& diff)
 
     tm.year += diff.GetYears();
     tm.AddMonths(diff.GetMonths());
+
+    // check that the resulting date is valid
+    if ( tm.mday > GetNumOfDaysInMonth(tm.year, tm.mon) )
+    {
+        // We suppose that when adding one month to Jan 31 we want to get Feb
+        // 28 (or 29), i.e. adding a month to the last day of the month should
+        // give the last day of the next month which is quite logical.
+        //
+        // Unfortunately, there is no logic way to understand what should
+        // Jan 30 + 1 month be - Feb 28 too or Feb 27 (assuming non leap year)?
+        // We make it Feb 28 (last day too), but it is highly questionable.
+        tm.mday = GetNumOfDaysInMonth(tm.year, tm.mon);
+    }
+
     tm.AddDays(diff.GetTotalDays());
 
     Set(tm);
@@ -1372,6 +1644,65 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Add(const wxDateSpan& diff)
 // Weekday and monthday stuff
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+// convert Sun, Mon, ..., Sat into 6, 0, ..., 5
+static inline int ConvertWeekDayToMondayBase(int wd)
+{
+    return wd == wxDateTime::Sun ? 6 : wd - 1;
+}
+
+/* static */
+wxDateTime
+wxDateTime::SetToWeekOfYear(int year, wxDateTime_t numWeek, WeekDay wd)
+{
+    wxASSERT_MSG( numWeek > 0,
+                  _T("invalid week number: weeks are counted from 1") );
+
+    // Jan 4 always lies in the 1st week of the year
+    wxDateTime dt(4, Jan, year);
+    dt.SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(wd);
+    dt += wxDateSpan::Weeks(numWeek - 1);
+
+    return dt;
+}
+
+// use a separate function to avoid warnings about using deprecated
+// SetToTheWeek in GetWeek below
+static wxDateTime
+SetToTheWeek(int year,
+             wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t numWeek,
+             wxDateTime::WeekDay weekday,
+             wxDateTime::WeekFlags flags)
+{
+    // Jan 4 always lies in the 1st week of the year
+    wxDateTime dt(4, wxDateTime::Jan, year);
+    dt.SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(weekday, flags);
+    dt += wxDateSpan::Weeks(numWeek - 1);
+
+    return dt;
+}
+
+bool wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek(wxDateTime_t numWeek,
+                              WeekDay weekday,
+                              WeekFlags flags)
+{
+    int year = GetYear();
+    *this = ::SetToTheWeek(year, numWeek, weekday, flags);
+    if ( GetYear() != year )
+    {
+        // oops... numWeek was too big
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetWeek(wxDateTime_t numWeek,
+                               WeekDay weekday,
+                               WeekFlags flags) const
+{
+    return ::SetToTheWeek(GetYear(), numWeek, weekday, flags);
+}
+
 wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToLastMonthDay(Month month,
                                           int year)
 {
@@ -1384,29 +1715,46 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToLastMonthDay(Month month,
     return Set(GetNumOfDaysInMonth(year, month), month, year);
 }
 
-wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(WeekDay weekday)
+wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(WeekDay weekday, WeekFlags flags)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, wxInvalidDateTime, _T("invalid weekday") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, _T("invalid weekday") );
 
-    WeekDay wdayThis = GetWeekDay();
+    int wdayThis = GetWeekDay();
     if ( weekday == wdayThis )
     {
         // nothing to do
         return *this;
     }
-    else if ( weekday < wdayThis )
+
+    if ( flags == Default_First )
+    {
+        flags = GetCountry() == USA ? Sunday_First : Monday_First;
+    }
+
+    // the logic below based on comparing weekday and wdayThis works if Sun (0)
+    // is the first day in the week, but breaks down for Monday_First case so
+    // we adjust the week days in this case
+    if( flags == Monday_First )
+    {
+        if ( wdayThis == Sun )
+            wdayThis += 7;
+    }
+    //else: Sunday_First, nothing to do
+
+    // go forward or back in time to the day we want
+    if ( weekday < wdayThis )
     {
-        return Substract(wxTimeSpan::Days(wdayThis - weekday));
+        return Subtract(wxDateSpan::Days(wdayThis - weekday));
     }
     else // weekday > wdayThis
     {
-        return Add(wxTimeSpan::Days(weekday - wdayThis));
+        return Add(wxDateSpan::Days(weekday - wdayThis));
     }
 }
 
 wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToNextWeekDay(WeekDay weekday)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, wxInvalidDateTime, _T("invalid weekday") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, _T("invalid weekday") );
 
     int diff;
     WeekDay wdayThis = GetWeekDay();
@@ -1425,12 +1773,12 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToNextWeekDay(WeekDay weekday)
         diff = weekday - wdayThis;
     }
 
-    return Add(wxTimeSpan::Days(diff));
+    return Add(wxDateSpan::Days(diff));
 }
 
 wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToPrevWeekDay(WeekDay weekday)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, wxInvalidDateTime, _T("invalid weekday") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, _T("invalid weekday") );
 
     int diff;
     WeekDay wdayThis = GetWeekDay();
@@ -1449,7 +1797,7 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToPrevWeekDay(WeekDay weekday)
         diff = wdayThis - weekday;
     }
 
-    return Substract(wxTimeSpan::Days(diff));
+    return Subtract(wxDateSpan::Days(diff));
 }
 
 bool wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay(WeekDay weekday,
@@ -1457,9 +1805,9 @@ bool wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay(WeekDay weekday,
                               Month month,
                               int year)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, FALSE, _T("invalid weekday") );
+    wxCHECK_MSG( weekday != Inv_WeekDay, false, _T("invalid weekday") );
 
-    // we don't check explicitly that -5 <= n <= 5 because we will return FALSE
+    // we don't check explicitly that -5 <= n <= 5 because we will return false
     // anyhow in such case - but may be should still give an assert for it?
 
     // take the current month/year if none specified
@@ -1511,52 +1859,87 @@ bool wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay(WeekDay weekday,
     {
         *this = dt;
 
-        return TRUE;
+        return true;
     }
     else
     {
         // no such day in this month
-        return FALSE;
+        return false;
     }
 }
 
-wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t wxDateTime::GetDayOfYear(const TimeZone& tz) const
+static inline
+wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t GetDayOfYearFromTm(const wxDateTime::Tm& tm)
 {
-    Tm tm(GetTm(tz));
+    return (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)(gs_cumulatedDays[wxDateTime::IsLeapYear(tm.year)][tm.mon] + tm.mday);
+}
 
-    return gs_cumulatedDays[IsLeapYear(tm.year)][tm.mon] + tm.mday;
+wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t wxDateTime::GetDayOfYear(const TimeZone& tz) const
+{
+    return GetDayOfYearFromTm(GetTm(tz));
 }
 
-wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t wxDateTime::GetWeekOfYear(wxDateTime::WeekFlags flags,
-                                                   const TimeZone& tz) const
+wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t
+wxDateTime::GetWeekOfYear(wxDateTime::WeekFlags flags, const TimeZone& tz) const
 {
     if ( flags == Default_First )
     {
         flags = GetCountry() == USA ? Sunday_First : Monday_First;
     }
 
-    wxDateTime_t nDayInYear = GetDayOfYear(tz);
-    wxDateTime_t week;
+    Tm tm(GetTm(tz));
+    wxDateTime_t nDayInYear = GetDayOfYearFromTm(tm);
 
-    WeekDay wd = GetWeekDay(tz);
+    int wdTarget = GetWeekDay(tz);
+    int wdYearStart = wxDateTime(1, Jan, GetYear()).GetWeekDay();
+    int week;
     if ( flags == Sunday_First )
     {
-        week = (nDayInYear - wd + 7) / 7;
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        // have to shift the week days values
-        week = (nDayInYear - (wd - 1 + 7) % 7 + 7) / 7;
-    }
+        // FIXME: First week is not calculated correctly.
+        week = (nDayInYear - wdTarget + 7) / 7;
+        if ( wdYearStart == Wed || wdYearStart == Thu )
+            week++;
+    }
+    else // week starts with monday
+    {
+        // adjust the weekdays to non-US style.
+        wdYearStart = ConvertWeekDayToMondayBase(wdYearStart);
+        wdTarget = ConvertWeekDayToMondayBase(wdTarget);
+
+        // quoting from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html:
+        //
+        //      Week 01 of a year is per definition the first week that has the
+        //      Thursday in this year, which is equivalent to the week that
+        //      contains the fourth day of January. In other words, the first
+        //      week of a new year is the week that has the majority of its
+        //      days in the new year. Week 01 might also contain days from the
+        //      previous year and the week before week 01 of a year is the last
+        //      week (52 or 53) of the previous year even if it contains days
+        //      from the new year. A week starts with Monday (day 1) and ends
+        //      with Sunday (day 7).
+        //
+
+        // if Jan 1 is Thursday or less, it is in the first week of this year
+        if ( wdYearStart < 4 )
+        {
+            // count the number of entire weeks between Jan 1 and this date
+            week = (nDayInYear + wdYearStart + 6 - wdTarget)/7;
 
-    // FIXME some more elegant way??
-    WeekDay wdYearStart = wxDateTime(1, Jan, GetYear()).GetWeekDay();
-    if ( wdYearStart == Wed || wdYearStart == Thu )
-    {
-        week++;
+            // be careful to check for overflow in the next year
+            if ( week == 53 && tm.mday - wdTarget > 28 )
+                    week = 1;
+        }
+        else // Jan 1 is in the last week of the previous year
+        {
+            // check if we happen to be at the last week of previous year:
+            if ( tm.mon == Jan && tm.mday < 8 - wdYearStart )
+                week = wxDateTime(31, Dec, GetYear()-1).GetWeekOfYear();
+            else
+                week = (nDayInYear + wdYearStart - 1 - wdTarget)/7;
+        }
     }
 
-    return week;
+    return (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)week;
 }
 
 wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t wxDateTime::GetWeekOfMonth(wxDateTime::WeekFlags flags,
@@ -1564,7 +1947,7 @@ wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t wxDateTime::GetWeekOfMonth(wxDateTime::WeekFlags flags,
 {
     Tm tm = GetTm(tz);
     wxDateTime dtMonthStart = wxDateTime(1, tm.mon, tm.year);
-    size_t nWeek = GetWeekOfYear(flags) - dtMonthStart.GetWeekOfYear(flags) + 1;
+    int nWeek = GetWeekOfYear(flags) - dtMonthStart.GetWeekOfYear(flags) + 1;
     if ( nWeek < 0 )
     {
         // this may happen for January when Jan, 1 is the last week of the
@@ -1572,14 +1955,14 @@ wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t wxDateTime::GetWeekOfMonth(wxDateTime::WeekFlags flags,
         nWeek += IsLeapYear(tm.year - 1) ? 53 : 52;
     }
 
-    return nWeek;
+    return (wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)nWeek;
 }
 
 wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToYearDay(wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t yday)
 {
     int year = GetYear();
-    wxCHECK_MSG( (0 < yday) && (yday <= GetNumberOfDays(year)),
-                 wxInvalidDateTime, _T("invalid year day") );
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( (0 < yday) && (yday <= GetNumberOfDays(year)),
+                      _T("invalid year day") );
 
     bool isLeap = IsLeapYear(year);
     for ( Month mon = Jan; mon < Inv_Month; wxNextMonth(mon) )
@@ -1587,9 +1970,9 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToYearDay(wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t yday)
         // for Dec, we can't compare with gs_cumulatedDays[mon + 1], but we
         // don't need it neither - because of the CHECK above we know that
         // yday lies in December then
-        if ( (mon == Dec) || (yday < gs_cumulatedDays[isLeap][mon + 1]) )
+        if ( (mon == Dec) || (yday <= gs_cumulatedDays[isLeap][mon + 1]) )
         {
-            Set(yday - gs_cumulatedDays[isLeap][mon], mon, year);
+            Set((wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t)(yday - gs_cumulatedDays[isLeap][mon]), mon, year);
 
             break;
         }
@@ -1604,8 +1987,8 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToYearDay(wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t yday)
 
 double wxDateTime::GetJulianDayNumber() const
 {
-    // JDN are always expressed for the GMT dates
-    Tm tm(ToTimezone(GMT0).GetTm(GMT0));
+    // JDN are always expressed for the UTC dates
+    Tm tm(ToTimezone(UTC).GetTm(UTC));
 
     double result = GetTruncatedJDN(tm.mday, tm.mon, tm.year);
 
@@ -1657,7 +2040,7 @@ int wxDateTime::IsDST(wxDateTime::Country country) const
 
 wxDateTime& wxDateTime::MakeTimezone(const TimeZone& tz, bool noDST)
 {
-    int secDiff = GetTimeZone() + tz.GetOffset();
+    long secDiff = GetTimeZone() + tz.GetOffset();
 
     // we need to know whether DST is or not in effect for this date unless
     // the test disabled by the caller
@@ -1667,7 +2050,7 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::MakeTimezone(const TimeZone& tz, bool noDST)
         secDiff -= 3600;
     }
 
-    return Substract(wxTimeSpan::Seconds(secDiff));
+    return Subtract(wxTimeSpan::Seconds(secDiff));
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1678,8 +2061,10 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
 {
     wxCHECK_MSG( format, _T(""), _T("NULL format in wxDateTime::Format") );
 
+    // we have to use our own implementation if the date is out of range of
+    // strftime() or if we use non standard specificators
     time_t time = GetTicks();
-    if ( time != (time_t)-1 )
+    if ( (time != (time_t)-1) && !wxStrstr(format, _T("%l")) )
     {
         // use strftime()
         tm *tm;
@@ -1693,9 +2078,9 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
         }
         else
         {
-            time += tz.GetOffset();
+            time += (int)tz.GetOffset();
 
-#ifdef __VMS__ // time is unsigned so avoid the warning
+#if defined(__VMS__) || defined(__WATCOMC__) // time is unsigned so avoid warning
             int time2 = (int) time;
             if ( time2 >= 0 )
 #else
@@ -1721,7 +2106,8 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
     }
 
     // we only parse ANSI C format specifications here, no POSIX 2
-    // complications, no GNU extensions
+    // complications, no GNU extensions but we do add support for a "%l" format
+    // specifier allowing to get the number of milliseconds
     Tm tm = GetTm(tz);
 
     // used for calls to strftime() when we only deal with time
@@ -1755,9 +2141,14 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
                 break;
 
             case _T('j'):               // day of year has 3 digits
+            case _T('l'):               // milliseconds have 3 digits
                 fmt = _T("%03d");
                 break;
 
+            case _T('w'):               // week day as number has only one
+                fmt = _T("%d");
+                break;
+
             default:
                 // it's either another valid format specifier in which case
                 // the format is "%02d" (for all the rest) or we have the
@@ -1766,257 +2157,268 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
                 fmt = _T("%02d");
         }
 
-restart:
-        // start of the format specification
-        switch ( *p )
+        bool restart = true;
+        while ( restart )
         {
-            case _T('a'):       // a weekday name
-            case _T('A'):
-                // second parameter should be TRUE for abbreviated names
-                res += GetWeekDayName(tm.GetWeekDay(),
-                                      *p == _T('a') ? Name_Abbr : Name_Full);
-                break;
+            restart = false;
 
-            case _T('b'):       // a month name
-            case _T('B'):
-                res += GetMonthName(tm.mon,
-                                    *p == _T('b') ? Name_Abbr : Name_Full);
-                break;
+            // start of the format specification
+            switch ( *p )
+            {
+                case _T('a'):       // a weekday name
+                case _T('A'):
+                    // second parameter should be true for abbreviated names
+                    res += GetWeekDayName(tm.GetWeekDay(),
+                                          *p == _T('a') ? Name_Abbr : Name_Full);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('c'):       // locale default date and time  representation
-            case _T('x'):       // locale default date representation
-                //
-                // the problem: there is no way to know what do these format
-                // specifications correspond to for the current locale.
-                //
-                // the solution: use a hack and still use strftime(): first
-                // find the YEAR which is a year in the strftime() range (1970
-                // - 2038) whose Jan 1 falls on the same week day as the Jan 1
-                // of the real year. Then make a copy of the format and
-                // replace all occurences of YEAR in it with some unique
-                // string not appearing anywhere else in it, then use
-                // strftime() to format the date in year YEAR and then replace
-                // YEAR back by the real year and the unique replacement
-                // string back with YEAR. Notice that "all occurences of YEAR"
-                // means all occurences of 4 digit as well as 2 digit form!
-                //
-                // the bugs: we assume that neither of %c nor %x contains any
-                // fields which may change between the YEAR and real year. For
-                // example, the week number (%U, %W) and the day number (%j)
-                // will change if one of these years is leap and the other one
-                // is not!
-                {
-                    // find the YEAR: normally, for any year X, Jan 1 or the
-                    // year X + 28 is the same weekday as Jan 1 of X (because
-                    // the weekday advances by 1 for each normal X and by 2
-                    // for each leap X, hence by 5 every 4 years or by 35
-                    // which is 0 mod 7 every 28 years) but this rule breaks
-                    // down if there are years between X and Y which are
-                    // divisible by 4 but not leap (i.e. divisible by 100 but
-                    // not 400), hence the correction.
-
-                    int yearReal = GetYear(tz);
-                    int mod28 = yearReal % 28;
-
-                    // be careful to not go too far - we risk to leave the
-                    // supported range
-                    int year;
-                    if ( mod28 < 10 )
-                    {
-                        year = 1988 + mod28;      // 1988 == 0 (mod 28)
-                    }
-                    else
+                case _T('b'):       // a month name
+                case _T('B'):
+                    res += GetMonthName(tm.mon,
+                                        *p == _T('b') ? Name_Abbr : Name_Full);
+                    break;
+
+                case _T('c'):       // locale default date and time  representation
+                case _T('x'):       // locale default date representation
+                    //
+                    // the problem: there is no way to know what do these format
+                    // specifications correspond to for the current locale.
+                    //
+                    // the solution: use a hack and still use strftime(): first
+                    // find the YEAR which is a year in the strftime() range (1970
+                    // - 2038) whose Jan 1 falls on the same week day as the Jan 1
+                    // of the real year. Then make a copy of the format and
+                    // replace all occurences of YEAR in it with some unique
+                    // string not appearing anywhere else in it, then use
+                    // strftime() to format the date in year YEAR and then replace
+                    // YEAR back by the real year and the unique replacement
+                    // string back with YEAR. Notice that "all occurences of YEAR"
+                    // means all occurences of 4 digit as well as 2 digit form!
+                    //
+                    // the bugs: we assume that neither of %c nor %x contains any
+                    // fields which may change between the YEAR and real year. For
+                    // example, the week number (%U, %W) and the day number (%j)
+                    // will change if one of these years is leap and the other one
+                    // is not!
                     {
-                        year = 1970 + mod28 - 10; // 1970 == 10 (mod 28)
-                    }
+                        // find the YEAR: normally, for any year X, Jan 1 or the
+                        // year X + 28 is the same weekday as Jan 1 of X (because
+                        // the weekday advances by 1 for each normal X and by 2
+                        // for each leap X, hence by 5 every 4 years or by 35
+                        // which is 0 mod 7 every 28 years) but this rule breaks
+                        // down if there are years between X and Y which are
+                        // divisible by 4 but not leap (i.e. divisible by 100 but
+                        // not 400), hence the correction.
+
+                        int yearReal = GetYear(tz);
+                        int mod28 = yearReal % 28;
+
+                        // be careful to not go too far - we risk to leave the
+                        // supported range
+                        int year;
+                        if ( mod28 < 10 )
+                        {
+                            year = 1988 + mod28;      // 1988 == 0 (mod 28)
+                        }
+                        else
+                        {
+                            year = 1970 + mod28 - 10; // 1970 == 10 (mod 28)
+                        }
 
-                    int nCentury = year / 100,
-                        nCenturyReal = yearReal / 100;
+                        int nCentury = year / 100,
+                            nCenturyReal = yearReal / 100;
 
-                    // need to adjust for the years divisble by 400 which are
-                    // not leap but are counted like leap ones if we just take
-                    // the number of centuries in between for nLostWeekDays
-                    int nLostWeekDays = (nCentury - nCenturyReal) -
-                                        (nCentury / 4 - nCenturyReal / 4);
+                        // need to adjust for the years divisble by 400 which are
+                        // not leap but are counted like leap ones if we just take
+                        // the number of centuries in between for nLostWeekDays
+                        int nLostWeekDays = (nCentury - nCenturyReal) -
+                                            (nCentury / 4 - nCenturyReal / 4);
 
-                    // we have to gain back the "lost" weekdays: note that the
-                    // effect of this loop is to not do anything to
-                    // nLostWeekDays (which we won't use any more), but to
-                    // (indirectly) set the year correctly
-                    while ( (nLostWeekDays % 7) != 0 )
-                    {
-                        nLostWeekDays += year++ % 4 ? 1 : 2;
-                    }
+                        // we have to gain back the "lost" weekdays: note that the
+                        // effect of this loop is to not do anything to
+                        // nLostWeekDays (which we won't use any more), but to
+                        // (indirectly) set the year correctly
+                        while ( (nLostWeekDays % 7) != 0 )
+                        {
+                            nLostWeekDays += year++ % 4 ? 1 : 2;
+                        }
 
-                    // at any rate, we couldn't go further than 1988 + 9 + 28!
-                    wxASSERT_MSG( year < 2030,
-                                  _T("logic error in wxDateTime::Format") );
+                        // at any rate, we couldn't go further than 1988 + 9 + 28!
+                        wxASSERT_MSG( year < 2030,
+                                      _T("logic error in wxDateTime::Format") );
 
-                    wxString strYear, strYear2;
-                    strYear.Printf(_T("%d"), year);
-                    strYear2.Printf(_T("%d"), year % 100);
+                        wxString strYear, strYear2;
+                        strYear.Printf(_T("%d"), year);
+                        strYear2.Printf(_T("%d"), year % 100);
 
-                    // find two strings not occuring in format (this is surely
-                    // not optimal way of doing it... improvements welcome!)
-                    wxString fmt = format;
-                    wxString replacement = (wxChar)-1;
-                    while ( fmt.Find(replacement) != wxNOT_FOUND )
-                    {
-                        replacement << (wxChar)-1;
-                    }
+                        // find two strings not occuring in format (this is surely
+                        // not optimal way of doing it... improvements welcome!)
+                        wxString fmt = format;
+                        wxString replacement = (wxChar)-1;
+                        while ( fmt.Find(replacement) != wxNOT_FOUND )
+                        {
+                            replacement << (wxChar)-1;
+                        }
 
-                    wxString replacement2 = (wxChar)-2;
-                    while ( fmt.Find(replacement) != wxNOT_FOUND )
-                    {
-                        replacement << (wxChar)-2;
+                        wxString replacement2 = (wxChar)-2;
+                        while ( fmt.Find(replacement) != wxNOT_FOUND )
+                        {
+                            replacement << (wxChar)-2;
+                        }
+
+                        // replace all occurences of year with it
+                        bool wasReplaced = fmt.Replace(strYear, replacement) > 0;
+                        if ( !wasReplaced )
+                            wasReplaced = fmt.Replace(strYear2, replacement2) > 0;
+
+                        // use strftime() to format the same date but in supported
+                        // year
+                        //
+                        // NB: we assume that strftime() doesn't check for the
+                        //     date validity and will happily format the date
+                        //     corresponding to Feb 29 of a non leap year (which
+                        //     may happen if yearReal was leap and year is not)
+                        struct tm tmAdjusted;
+                        InitTm(tmAdjusted);
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_hour = tm.hour;
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_min = tm.min;
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_sec = tm.sec;
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_wday = tm.GetWeekDay();
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_yday = GetDayOfYear();
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_mday = tm.mday;
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_mon = tm.mon;
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_year = year - 1900;
+                        tmAdjusted.tm_isdst = 0; // no DST, already adjusted
+                        wxString str = CallStrftime(*p == _T('c') ? _T("%c")
+                                                                  : _T("%x"),
+                                                    &tmAdjusted);
+
+                        // now replace the occurence of 1999 with the real year
+                        wxString strYearReal, strYearReal2;
+                        strYearReal.Printf(_T("%04d"), yearReal);
+                        strYearReal2.Printf(_T("%02d"), yearReal % 100);
+                        str.Replace(strYear, strYearReal);
+                        str.Replace(strYear2, strYearReal2);
+
+                        // and replace back all occurences of replacement string
+                        if ( wasReplaced )
+                        {
+                            str.Replace(replacement2, strYear2);
+                            str.Replace(replacement, strYear);
+                        }
+
+                        res += str;
                     }
+                    break;
 
-                    // replace all occurences of year with it
-                    bool wasReplaced = fmt.Replace(strYear, replacement) > 0;
-                    if ( !wasReplaced )
-                        wasReplaced = fmt.Replace(strYear2, replacement2) > 0;
+                case _T('d'):       // day of a month (01-31)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.mday);
+                    break;
 
-                    // use strftime() to format the same date but in supported
-                    // year
-                    //
-                    // NB: we assume that strftime() doesn't check for the
-                    //     date validity and will happily format the date
-                    //     corresponding to Feb 29 of a non leap year (which
-                    //     may happen if yearReal was leap and year is not)
-                    struct tm tmAdjusted;
-                    InitTm(tmAdjusted);
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_hour = tm.hour;
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_min = tm.min;
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_sec = tm.sec;
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_wday = tm.GetWeekDay();
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_yday = GetDayOfYear();
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_mday = tm.mday;
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_mon = tm.mon;
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_year = year - 1900;
-                    tmAdjusted.tm_isdst = 0; // no DST, already adjusted
-                    wxString str = CallStrftime(*p == _T('c') ? _T("%c")
-                                                              : _T("%x"),
-                                                &tmAdjusted);
-
-                    // now replace the occurence of 1999 with the real year
-                    wxString strYearReal, strYearReal2;
-                    strYearReal.Printf(_T("%04d"), yearReal);
-                    strYearReal2.Printf(_T("%02d"), yearReal % 100);
-                    str.Replace(strYear, strYearReal);
-                    str.Replace(strYear2, strYearReal2);
-
-                    // and replace back all occurences of replacement string
-                    if ( wasReplaced )
+                case _T('H'):       // hour in 24h format (00-23)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.hour);
+                    break;
+
+                case _T('I'):       // hour in 12h format (01-12)
                     {
-                        str.Replace(replacement2, strYear2);
-                        str.Replace(replacement, strYear);
+                        // 24h -> 12h, 0h -> 12h too
+                        int hour12 = tm.hour > 12 ? tm.hour - 12
+                                                  : tm.hour ? tm.hour : 12;
+                        res += wxString::Format(fmt, hour12);
                     }
+                    break;
 
-                    res += str;
-                }
-                break;
+                case _T('j'):       // day of the year
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetDayOfYear(tz));
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('d'):       // day of a month (01-31)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.mday);
-                break;
+                case _T('l'):       // milliseconds (NOT STANDARD)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetMillisecond(tz));
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('H'):       // hour in 24h format (00-23)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.hour);
-                break;
+                case _T('m'):       // month as a number (01-12)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.mon + 1);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('I'):       // hour in 12h format (01-12)
-                {
-                    // 24h -> 12h, 0h -> 12h too
-                    int hour12 = tm.hour > 12 ? tm.hour - 12
-                                              : tm.hour ? tm.hour : 12;
-                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, hour12);
-                }
-                break;
+                case _T('M'):       // minute as a decimal number (00-59)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.min);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('j'):       // day of the year
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetDayOfYear(tz));
-                break;
+                case _T('p'):       // AM or PM string
+                    res += CallStrftime(_T("%p"), &tmTimeOnly);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('m'):       // month as a number (01-12)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.mon + 1);
-                break;
+                case _T('S'):       // second as a decimal number (00-61)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.sec);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('M'):       // minute as a decimal number (00-59)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.min);
-                break;
+                case _T('U'):       // week number in the year (Sunday 1st week day)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Sunday_First, tz));
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('p'):       // AM or PM string
-                res += CallStrftime(_T("%p"), &tmTimeOnly);
-                break;
+                case _T('W'):       // week number in the year (Monday 1st week day)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Monday_First, tz));
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('S'):       // second as a decimal number (00-61)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.sec);
-                break;
+                case _T('w'):       // weekday as a number (0-6), Sunday = 0
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.GetWeekDay());
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('U'):       // week number in the year (Sunday 1st week day)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Sunday_First, tz));
-                break;
+                // case _T('x'): -- handled with "%c"
 
-            case _T('W'):       // week number in the year (Monday 1st week day)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Monday_First, tz));
-                break;
+                case _T('X'):       // locale default time representation
+                    // just use strftime() to format the time for us
+                    res += CallStrftime(_T("%X"), &tmTimeOnly);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('w'):       // weekday as a number (0-6), Sunday = 0
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.GetWeekDay());
-                break;
-
-            // case _T('x'): -- handled with "%c"
-
-            case _T('X'):       // locale default time representation
-                // just use strftime() to format the time for us
-                res += CallStrftime(_T("%X"), &tmTimeOnly);
-                break;
+                case _T('y'):       // year without century (00-99)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.year % 100);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('y'):       // year without century (00-99)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.year % 100);
-                break;
+                case _T('Y'):       // year with century
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.year);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('Y'):       // year with century
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.year);
-                break;
+                case _T('Z'):       // timezone name
+                    res += CallStrftime(_T("%Z"), &tmTimeOnly);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('Z'):       // timezone name
-                res += CallStrftime(_T("%Z"), &tmTimeOnly);
-                break;
+                default:
+                    // is it the format width?
+                    fmt.Empty();
+                    while ( *p == _T('-') || *p == _T('+') ||
+                            *p == _T(' ') || wxIsdigit(*p) )
+                    {
+                        fmt += *p;
+                    }
 
-            default:
-                // is it the format width?
-                fmt.Empty();
-                while ( *p == _T('-') || *p == _T('+') ||
-                        *p == _T(' ') || wxIsdigit(*p) )
-                {
-                    fmt += *p;
-                }
+                    if ( !fmt.empty() )
+                    {
+                        // we've only got the flags and width so far in fmt
+                        fmt.Prepend(_T('%'));
+                        fmt.Append(_T('d'));
 
-                if ( !fmt.IsEmpty() )
-                {
-                    // we've only got the flags and width so far in fmt
-                    fmt.Prepend(_T('%'));
-                    fmt.Append(_T('d'));
+                        restart = true;
 
-                    goto restart;
-                }
+                        break;
+                    }
 
-                // no, it wasn't the width
-                wxFAIL_MSG(_T("unknown format specificator"));
+                    // no, it wasn't the width
+                    wxFAIL_MSG(_T("unknown format specificator"));
 
-                // fall through and just copy it nevertheless
+                    // fall through and just copy it nevertheless
 
-            case _T('%'):       // a percent sign
-                res += *p;
-                break;
+                case _T('%'):       // a percent sign
+                    res += *p;
+                    break;
 
-            case 0:             // the end of string
-                wxFAIL_MSG(_T("missing format at the end of string"));
+                case 0:             // the end of string
+                    wxFAIL_MSG(_T("missing format at the end of string"));
 
-                // just put the '%' which was the last char in format
-                res += _T('%');
-                break;
+                    // just put the '%' which was the last char in format
+                    res += _T('%');
+                    break;
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -2063,11 +2465,11 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
         return (wxChar *)NULL;
     }
 
-    wxDateTime_t day = *p++ - _T('0');
+    wxDateTime_t day = (wxDateTime_t)(*p++ - _T('0'));
     if ( wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
         day *= 10;
-        day += *p++ - _T('0');
+        day = (wxDateTime_t)(day + (*p++ - _T('0')));
     }
 
     if ( *p++ != _T(' ') )
@@ -2161,7 +2563,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
         return (wxChar *)NULL;
     }
 
-    wxDateTime_t hour = *p++ - _T('0');
+    wxDateTime_t hour = (wxDateTime_t)(*p++ - _T('0'));
 
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
@@ -2169,7 +2571,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
     }
 
     hour *= 10;
-    hour += *p++ - _T('0');
+    hour = (wxDateTime_t)(hour + (*p++ - _T('0')));
 
     if ( *p++ != _T(':') )
     {
@@ -2181,7 +2583,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
         return (wxChar *)NULL;
     }
 
-    wxDateTime_t min = *p++ - _T('0');
+    wxDateTime_t min = (wxDateTime_t)(*p++ - _T('0'));
 
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
@@ -2189,7 +2591,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
     }
 
     min *= 10;
-    min += *p++ - _T('0');
+    min = (wxDateTime_t)(min + *p++ - _T('0'));
 
     wxDateTime_t sec = 0;
     if ( *p++ == _T(':') )
@@ -2199,7 +2601,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
             return (wxChar *)NULL;
         }
 
-        sec = *p++ - _T('0');
+        sec = (wxDateTime_t)(*p++ - _T('0'));
 
         if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
         {
@@ -2207,7 +2609,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
         }
 
         sec *= 10;
-        sec += *p++ - _T('0');
+        sec = (wxDateTime_t)(sec + *p++ - _T('0'));
     }
 
     if ( *p++ != _T(' ') )
@@ -2329,17 +2731,17 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
     unsigned long num;
 
     // what fields have we found?
-    bool haveWDay = FALSE,
-         haveYDay = FALSE,
-         haveDay = FALSE,
-         haveMon = FALSE,
-         haveYear = FALSE,
-         haveHour = FALSE,
-         haveMin = FALSE,
-         haveSec = FALSE;
-
-    bool hourIsIn12hFormat = FALSE, // or in 24h one?
-         isPM = FALSE;              // AM by default
+    bool haveWDay = false,
+         haveYDay = false,
+         haveDay = false,
+         haveMon = false,
+         haveYear = false,
+         haveHour = false,
+         haveMin = false,
+         haveSec = false;
+
+    bool hourIsIn12hFormat = false, // or in 24h one?
+         isPM = false;              // AM by default
 
     // and the value of the items we have (init them to get rid of warnings)
     wxDateTime_t sec = 0,
@@ -2381,7 +2783,41 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
         }
 
         // start of a format specification
-        switch ( *++fmt )
+
+        // parse the optional width
+        size_t width = 0;
+        while ( wxIsdigit(*++fmt) )
+        {
+            width *= 10;
+            width += *fmt - _T('0');
+        }
+
+        // the default widths for the various fields
+        if ( !width )
+        {
+            switch ( *fmt )
+            {
+                case _T('Y'):               // year has 4 digits
+                    width = 4;
+                    break;
+
+                case _T('j'):               // day of year has 3 digits
+                case _T('l'):               // milliseconds have 3 digits
+                    width = 3;
+                    break;
+
+                case _T('w'):               // week day as number has only one
+                    width = 1;
+                    break;
+
+                default:
+                    // default for all other fields
+                    width = 2;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // then the format itself
+        switch ( *fmt )
         {
             case _T('a'):       // a weekday name
             case _T('A'):
@@ -2394,7 +2830,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                         return (wxChar *)NULL;
                     }
                 }
-                haveWDay = TRUE;
+                haveWDay = true;
                 break;
 
             case _T('b'):       // a month name
@@ -2408,7 +2844,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                         return (wxChar *)NULL;
                     }
                 }
-                haveMon = TRUE;
+                haveMon = true;
                 break;
 
             case _T('c'):       // locale default date and time  representation
@@ -2439,7 +2875,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
 
                     haveDay = haveMon = haveYear =
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     hour = tm.hour;
                     min = tm.min;
@@ -2454,7 +2890,8 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 break;
 
             case _T('d'):       // day of a month (01-31)
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || (num > 31) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) ||
+                        (num > 31) || (num < 1) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
@@ -2462,63 +2899,63 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
 
                 // we can't check whether the day range is correct yet, will
                 // do it later - assume ok for now
-                haveDay = TRUE;
+                haveDay = true;
                 mday = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
             case _T('H'):       // hour in 24h format (00-23)
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || (num > 23) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || (num > 23) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveHour = TRUE;
+                haveHour = true;
                 hour = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
             case _T('I'):       // hour in 12h format (01-12)
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || !num || (num > 12) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || !num || (num > 12) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveHour = TRUE;
-                hourIsIn12hFormat = TRUE;
-                hour = num % 12;        // 12 should be 0
+                haveHour = true;
+                hourIsIn12hFormat = true;
+                hour = (wxDateTime_t)(num % 12);        // 12 should be 0
                 break;
 
             case _T('j'):       // day of the year
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || !num || (num > 366) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || !num || (num > 366) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveYDay = TRUE;
+                haveYDay = true;
                 yday = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
             case _T('m'):       // month as a number (01-12)
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || !num || (num > 12) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || !num || (num > 12) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveMon = TRUE;
+                haveMon = true;
                 mon = (Month)(num - 1);
                 break;
 
             case _T('M'):       // minute as a decimal number (00-59)
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || (num > 59) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || (num > 59) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveMin = TRUE;
+                haveMin = true;
                 min = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
@@ -2527,9 +2964,11 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     wxString am, pm, token = GetAlphaToken(input);
 
                     GetAmPmStrings(&am, &pm);
+                    if (am.empty() && pm.empty())
+                        return (wxChar *)NULL;  // no am/pm strings defined
                     if ( token.CmpNoCase(pm) == 0 )
                     {
-                        isPM = TRUE;
+                        isPM = true;
                     }
                     else if ( token.CmpNoCase(am) != 0 )
                     {
@@ -2549,7 +2988,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                         return (wxChar *)NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
@@ -2568,7 +3007,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                         return (wxChar *)NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
@@ -2576,13 +3015,13 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 }
 
             case _T('S'):       // second as a decimal number (00-61)
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || (num > 61) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || (num > 61) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveSec = TRUE;
+                haveSec = true;
                 sec = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
@@ -2596,7 +3035,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                         return (wxChar *)NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
@@ -2606,29 +3045,30 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 break;
 
             case _T('w'):       // weekday as a number (0-6), Sunday = 0
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || (wday > 6) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || (wday > 6) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveWDay = TRUE;
+                haveWDay = true;
                 wday = (WeekDay)num;
                 break;
 
             case _T('x'):       // locale default date representation
 #ifdef HAVE_STRPTIME
-                // try using strptime() - it may fail even if the input is
+                // try using strptime() -- it may fail even if the input is
                 // correct but the date is out of range, so we will fall back
-                // to our generic code anyhow (FIXME !Unicode friendly)
+                // to our generic code anyhow
                 {
                     struct tm tm;
-                    const wxChar *result = strptime(input, "%x", &tm);
+
+                    const wxChar *result = CallStrptime(input, "%x", &tm);
                     if ( result )
                     {
                         input = result;
 
-                        haveDay = haveMon = haveYear = TRUE;
+                        haveDay = haveMon = haveYear = true;
 
                         year = 1900 + tm.tm_year;
                         mon = (Month)tm.tm_mon;
@@ -2672,7 +3112,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
 
-                    haveDay = haveMon = haveYear = TRUE;
+                    haveDay = haveMon = haveYear = true;
 
                     year = tm.year;
                     mon = tm.mon;
@@ -2688,13 +3128,13 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 {
                     // use strptime() to do it for us (FIXME !Unicode friendly)
                     struct tm tm;
-                    input = strptime(input, "%X", &tm);
+                    input = CallStrptime(input, "%X", &tm);
                     if ( !input )
                     {
                         return (wxChar *)NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     hour = tm.tm_hour;
                     min = tm.tm_min;
@@ -2722,7 +3162,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                         return (wxChar *)NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
@@ -2735,24 +3175,27 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 break;
 
             case _T('y'):       // year without century (00-99)
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) || (num > 99) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) || (num > 99) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveYear = TRUE;
-                year = 1900 + num;
+                haveYear = true;
+
+                // TODO should have an option for roll over date instead of
+                //      hard coding it here
+                year = (num > 30 ? 1900 : 2000) + (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
             case _T('Y'):       // year with century
-                if ( !GetNumericToken(input, &num) )
+                if ( !GetNumericToken(width, input, &num) )
                 {
                     // no match
                     return (wxChar *)NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveYear = TRUE;
+                haveYear = true;
                 year = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
@@ -2785,7 +3228,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
         // take this date as default
         tmDef = dateDef.GetTm();
     }
-    else if ( m_time != 0 )
+    else if ( IsValid() )
     {
         // if this date is valid, don't change it
         tmDef = GetTm();
@@ -2860,6 +3303,14 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
 
     Set(tm);
 
+    // finally check that the week day is consistent -- if we had it
+    if ( haveWDay && GetWeekDay() != wday )
+    {
+        wxLogDebug(_T("inconsistsnet week day in wxDateTime::ParseFormat()"));
+
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     return input;
 }
 
@@ -2867,11 +3318,48 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDateTime(const wxChar *date)
 {
     wxCHECK_MSG( date, (wxChar *)NULL, _T("NULL pointer in wxDateTime::Parse") );
 
-    // there is a public domain version of getdate.y, but it only works for
-    // English...
-    wxFAIL_MSG(_T("TODO"));
+    // Set to current day and hour, so strings like '14:00' becomes today at
+    // 14, not some other random date
+    wxDateTime dtDate = wxDateTime::Today();
+    wxDateTime dtTime = wxDateTime::Today();
+
+    const wxChar* pchTime;
+
+    // Try to parse the beginning of the string as a date
+    const wxChar* pchDate = dtDate.ParseDate(date);
+
+    // We got a date in the beginning, see if there is a time specified after the date
+    if ( pchDate )
+    {
+        // Skip spaces, as the ParseTime() function fails on spaces
+        while ( wxIsspace(*pchDate) )
+            pchDate++;
+
+        pchTime = dtTime.ParseTime(pchDate);
+    }
+    else // no date in the beginning
+    {
+        // check and see if we have a time followed by a date
+        pchTime = dtTime.ParseTime(date);
+        if ( pchTime )
+        {
+            while ( wxIsspace(*pchTime) )
+                pchTime++;
+
+            pchDate = dtDate.ParseDate(pchTime);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // If we have a date specified, set our own data to the same date
+    if ( !pchDate || !pchTime )
+        return NULL;
+
+    Set(dtDate.GetDay(), dtDate.GetMonth(), dtDate.GetYear(),
+        dtTime.GetHour(), dtTime.GetMinute(), dtTime.GetSecond(),
+        dtTime.GetMillisecond());
 
-    return (wxChar *)NULL;
+    // Return endpoint of scan
+    return pchDate > pchTime ? pchDate : pchTime;
 }
 
 const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
@@ -2886,23 +3374,52 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
     while ( wxIsspace(*p) )
         p++;
 
-    wxString today = _T("today");
-    size_t len = today.length();
-    if ( wxString(p, len).CmpNoCase(today) == 0 )
+    // some special cases
+    static struct
     {
-        // nothing can follow this, so stop here
-        p += len;
+        const wxChar *str;
+        int dayDiffFromToday;
+    } literalDates[] =
+    {
+        { wxTRANSLATE("today"),             0 },
+        { wxTRANSLATE("yesterday"),        -1 },
+        { wxTRANSLATE("tomorrow"),          1 },
+    };
 
-        *this = Today();
+    for ( size_t n = 0; n < WXSIZEOF(literalDates); n++ )
+    {
+        wxString date = wxGetTranslation(literalDates[n].str);
+        size_t len = date.length();
+        if ( wxStrlen(p) >= len )
+        {
+            wxString str(p, len);
+            if ( str.CmpNoCase(date) == 0 )
+            {
+                // nothing can follow this, so stop here
+                p += len;
+
+                int dayDiffFromToday = literalDates[n].dayDiffFromToday;
+                *this = Today();
+                if ( dayDiffFromToday )
+                {
+                    *this += wxDateSpan::Days(dayDiffFromToday);
+                }
 
-        return p;
+                return p;
+            }
+        }
     }
 
+    // We try to guess what we have here: for each new (numeric) token, we
+    // determine if it can be a month, day or a year. Of course, there is an
+    // ambiguity as some numbers may be days as well as months, so we also
+    // have the ability to back track.
+
     // what do we have?
-    bool haveDay = FALSE,       // the months day?
-         haveWDay = FALSE,      // the day of week?
-         haveMon = FALSE,       // the month?
-         haveYear = FALSE;      // the year?
+    bool haveDay = false,       // the months day?
+         haveWDay = false,      // the day of week?
+         haveMon = false,       // the month?
+         haveYear = false;      // the year?
 
     // and the value of the items we have (init them to get rid of warnings)
     WeekDay wday = Inv_WeekDay;
@@ -2911,10 +3428,14 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
     int year = 0;
 
     // tokenize the string
-    wxStringTokenizer tok(p, _T(",/-\t\n "));
+    size_t nPosCur = 0;
+    static const wxChar *dateDelimiters = _T(".,/-\t\r\n ");
+    wxStringTokenizer tok(p, dateDelimiters);
     while ( tok.HasMoreTokens() )
     {
         wxString token = tok.GetNextToken();
+        if ( !token )
+            continue;
 
         // is it a number?
         unsigned long val;
@@ -2922,127 +3443,98 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
         {
             // guess what this number is
 
-            bool isDay = FALSE,
-                 isMonth = FALSE,
-                 // only years are counted from 0
-                 isYear = (val == 0) || (val > 31);
-            if ( !isYear )
+            bool isDay = false,
+                 isMonth = false,
+                 isYear = false;
+
+            if ( !haveMon && val > 0 && val <= 12 )
+            {
+                // assume it is month
+                isMonth = true;
+            }
+            else // not the month
             {
-                // may be the month or month day or the year, assume the
-                // month day by default and fallback to month if the range
-                // allow it or to the year if our assumption doesn't work
                 if ( haveDay )
                 {
-                    // we already have the day, so may only be a month or year
-                    if ( val > 12 )
-                    {
-                        isYear = TRUE;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        isMonth = TRUE;
-                    }
+                    // this can only be the year
+                    isYear = true;
                 }
-                else // it may be day
+                else // may be either day or year
                 {
-                    isDay = TRUE;
-
-                    // check the range
-                    if ( haveMon )
+                    wxDateTime_t maxDays = (wxDateTime_t)(
+                        haveMon
+                        ? GetNumOfDaysInMonth(haveYear ? year : Inv_Year, mon)
+                        : 31
+                    );
+
+                    // can it be day?
+                    if ( (val == 0) || (val > (unsigned long)maxDays) )
                     {
-                        if ( val > GetNumOfDaysInMonth(haveYear ? year
-                                                                : Inv_Year,
-                                                       mon) )
-                        {
-                            // oops, it can't be a day finally
-                            isDay = FALSE;
-
-                            if ( val > 12 )
-                            {
-                                isYear = TRUE;
-                            }
-                            else
-                            {
-                                isMonth = TRUE;
-                            }
-                        }
+                        // no
+                        isYear = true;
+                    }
+                    else // yes, suppose it's the day
+                    {
+                        isDay = true;
                     }
                 }
             }
 
-            // remember that we have this and stop the scan if it's the second
-            // time we find this, except for the day logic (see there)
             if ( isYear )
             {
                 if ( haveYear )
-                {
                     break;
-                }
 
-                haveYear = TRUE;
+                haveYear = true;
 
-                // no roll over - 99 means 99, not 1999 for us
-                year = val;
+                year = (wxDateTime_t)val;
             }
-            else if ( isMonth )
+            else if ( isDay )
             {
-                if ( haveMon )
-                {
+                if ( haveDay )
                     break;
-                }
 
-                haveMon = TRUE;
+                haveDay = true;
 
-                mon = (wxDateTime::Month)val;
+                day = (wxDateTime_t)val;
             }
-            else
+            else if ( isMonth )
             {
-                wxASSERT_MSG( isDay, _T("logic error") );
-
-                if ( haveDay )
-                {
-                    // may be were mistaken when we found it for the first
-                    // time? may be it was a month or year instead?
-                    //
-                    // this ability to "backtrack" allows us to correctly parse
-                    // both things like 01/13 and 13/01 - but, of course, we
-                    // still can't resolve the ambiguity in 01/02 (it will be
-                    // Feb 1 for us, not Jan 2 as americans might expect!)
-                    if ( (day <= 12) && !haveMon )
-                    {
-                        // exchange day and month
-                        mon = (wxDateTime::Month)day;
-
-                        haveMon = TRUE;
-                    }
-                    else if ( !haveYear )
-                    {
-                        // exchange day and year
-                        year = day;
+                haveMon = true;
 
-                        haveYear = TRUE;
-                    }
-                }
-
-                haveDay = TRUE;
-
-                day = val;
+                mon = (Month)(val - 1);
             }
         }
         else // not a number
         {
-            mon = GetMonthFromName(token, Name_Full | Name_Abbr);
-            if ( mon != Inv_Month )
+            // be careful not to overwrite the current mon value
+            Month mon2 = GetMonthFromName(token, Name_Full | Name_Abbr);
+            if ( mon2 != Inv_Month )
             {
                 // it's a month
                 if ( haveMon )
                 {
-                    break;
+                    // but we already have a month - maybe we guessed wrong?
+                    if ( !haveDay )
+                    {
+                        // no need to check in month range as always < 12, but
+                        // the days are counted from 1 unlike the months
+                        day = (wxDateTime_t)(mon + 1);
+                        haveDay = true;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        // could possible be the year (doesn't the year come
+                        // before the month in the japanese format?) (FIXME)
+                        break;
+                    }
                 }
 
-                haveMon = TRUE;
+                mon = mon2;
+
+                haveMon = true;
             }
-            else
+            else // not a valid month name
             {
                 wday = GetWeekDayFromName(token, Name_Full | Name_Abbr);
                 if ( wday != Inv_WeekDay )
@@ -3053,9 +3545,9 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
                         break;
                     }
 
-                    haveWDay = TRUE;
+                    haveWDay = true;
                 }
-                else
+                else // not a valid weekday name
                 {
                     // try the ordinals
                     static const wxChar *ordinals[] =
@@ -3081,7 +3573,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
                         wxTRANSLATE("nineteenth"),
                         wxTRANSLATE("twentieth"),
                         // that's enough - otherwise we'd have problems with
-                        // composite (or not) ordinals otherwise
+                        // composite (or not) ordinals
                     };
 
                     size_t n;
@@ -3108,25 +3600,27 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
                         break;
                     }
 
-                    haveDay = TRUE;
+                    haveDay = true;
 
-                    day = n + 1;
+                    day = (wxDateTime_t)(n + 1);
                 }
             }
         }
+
+        nPosCur = tok.GetPosition();
     }
 
     // either no more tokens or the scan was stopped by something we couldn't
     // parse - in any case, see if we can construct a date from what we have
     if ( !haveDay && !haveWDay )
     {
-        wxLogDebug(_T("no day, no weekday hence no date."));
+        wxLogDebug(_T("ParseDate: no day, no weekday hence no date."));
 
         return (wxChar *)NULL;
     }
 
     if ( haveWDay && (haveMon || haveYear || haveDay) &&
-         !(haveMon && haveMon && haveYear) )
+         !(haveDay && haveMon && haveYear) )
     {
         // without adjectives (which we don't support here) the week day only
         // makes sense completely separately or with the full date
@@ -3134,6 +3628,37 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
         return (wxChar *)NULL;
     }
 
+    if ( !haveWDay && haveYear && !(haveDay && haveMon) )
+    {
+        // may be we have month and day instead of day and year?
+        if ( haveDay && !haveMon )
+        {
+            if ( day <= 12  )
+            {
+                // exchange day and month
+                mon = (wxDateTime::Month)(day - 1);
+
+                // we're in the current year then
+                if ( (year > 0) && (year <= (int)GetNumOfDaysInMonth(Inv_Year, mon)) )
+                {
+                    day = (wxDateTime_t)year;
+
+                    haveMon = true;
+                    haveYear = false;
+                }
+                //else: no, can't exchange, leave haveMon == false
+            }
+        }
+
+        if ( !haveMon )
+        {
+            // if we give the year, month and day must be given too
+            wxLogDebug(_T("ParseDate: day and month should be specified if year is."));
+
+            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        }
+    }
+
     if ( !haveMon )
     {
         mon = GetCurrentMonth();
@@ -3154,6 +3679,8 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
             if ( GetWeekDay() != wday )
             {
                 // inconsistency detected
+                wxLogDebug(_T("ParseDate: inconsistent day/weekday."));
+
                 return (wxChar *)NULL;
             }
         }
@@ -3165,8 +3692,16 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
         SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(wday);
     }
 
-    // return the pointer to the next char
-    return p + wxStrlen(p) - wxStrlen(tok.GetString());
+    // return the pointer to the first unparsed char
+    p += nPosCur;
+    if ( nPosCur && wxStrchr(dateDelimiters, *(p - 1)) )
+    {
+        // if we couldn't parse the token after the delimiter, put back the
+        // delimiter as well
+        p--;
+    }
+
+    return p;
 }
 
 const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxChar *time)
@@ -3191,14 +3726,19 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxChar *time)
         size_t len = timeString.length();
         if ( timeString.CmpNoCase(wxString(time, len)) == 0 )
         {
-            Set(stdTimes[n].hour, 0, 0);
+            // casts required by DigitalMars
+            Set(stdTimes[n].hour, wxDateTime_t(0), wxDateTime_t(0));
 
             return time + len;
         }
     }
 
-    // try all time formats we may think about starting with the standard one
-    const wxChar *result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%X"));
+    // try all time formats we may think about in the order from longest to
+    // shortest
+
+    // 12hour with AM/PM?
+    const wxChar *result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I:%M:%S %p"));
+
     if ( !result )
     {
         // normally, it's the same, but why not try it?
@@ -3207,8 +3747,8 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxChar *time)
 
     if ( !result )
     {
-        // 12hour with AM/PM?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I:%M:%S %p"));
+        // 12hour with AM/PM but without seconds?
+        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I:%M %p"));
     }
 
     if ( !result )
@@ -3219,8 +3759,8 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxChar *time)
 
     if ( !result )
     {
-        // 12hour with AM/PM but without seconds?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I:%M %p"));
+        // just the hour and AM/PM?
+        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I %p"));
     }
 
     if ( !result )
@@ -3231,8 +3771,9 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxChar *time)
 
     if ( !result )
     {
-        // just the hour and AM/PM?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I %p"));
+        // parse the standard format: normally it is one of the formats above
+        // but it may be set to something completely different by the user
+        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%X"));
     }
 
     // TODO: parse timezones
@@ -3240,10 +3781,32 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxChar *time)
     return result;
 }
 
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Workdays and holidays support
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+bool wxDateTime::IsWorkDay(Country WXUNUSED(country)) const
+{
+    return !wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::IsHoliday(*this);
+}
+
 // ============================================================================
 // wxTimeSpan
 // ============================================================================
 
+// this enum is only used in wxTimeSpan::Format() below but we can't declare
+// it locally to the method as it provokes an internal compiler error in egcs
+// 2.91.60 when building with -O2
+enum TimeSpanPart
+{
+    Part_Week,
+    Part_Day,
+    Part_Hour,
+    Part_Min,
+    Part_Sec,
+    Part_MSec
+};
+
 // not all strftime(3) format specifiers make sense here because, for example,
 // a time span doesn't have a year nor a timezone
 //
@@ -3265,63 +3828,254 @@ wxString wxTimeSpan::Format(const wxChar *format) const
     wxCHECK_MSG( format, _T(""), _T("NULL format in wxTimeSpan::Format") );
 
     wxString str;
-    str.Alloc(strlen(format));
+    str.Alloc(wxStrlen(format));
+
+    // Suppose we have wxTimeSpan ts(1 /* hour */, 2 /* min */, 3 /* sec */)
+    //
+    // Then, of course, ts.Format("%H:%M:%S") must return "01:02:03", but the
+    // question is what should ts.Format("%S") do? The code here returns "3273"
+    // in this case (i.e. the total number of seconds, not just seconds % 60)
+    // because, for me, this call means "give me entire time interval in
+    // seconds" and not "give me the seconds part of the time interval"
+    //
+    // If we agree that it should behave like this, it is clear that the
+    // interpretation of each format specifier depends on the presence of the
+    // other format specs in the string: if there was "%H" before "%M", we
+    // should use GetMinutes() % 60, otherwise just GetMinutes() &c
 
-    for ( const wxChar *pch = format; pch; pch++ )
+    // we remember the most important unit found so far
+    TimeSpanPart partBiggest = Part_MSec;
+
+    for ( const wxChar *pch = format; *pch; pch++ )
     {
         wxChar ch = *pch;
 
-        if ( ch == '%' )
+        if ( ch == _T('%') )
         {
-            wxString tmp;
+            // the start of the format specification of the printf() below
+            wxString fmtPrefix = _T('%');
+
+            // the number
+            long n;
 
-            ch = *pch++;
+            ch = *++pch;    // get the format spec char
             switch ( ch )
             {
                 default:
                     wxFAIL_MSG( _T("invalid format character") );
                     // fall through
 
-                case '%':
-                    // will get to str << ch below
-                    break;
+                case _T('%'):
+                    str += ch;
+
+                    // skip the part below switch
+                    continue;
 
-                case 'D':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%d"), GetDays());
+                case _T('D'):
+                    n = GetDays();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_Day )
+                    {
+                        n %= DAYS_PER_WEEK;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        partBiggest = Part_Day;
+                    }
                     break;
 
-                case 'E':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%d"), GetWeeks());
+                case _T('E'):
+                    partBiggest = Part_Week;
+                    n = GetWeeks();
                     break;
 
-                case 'H':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%02d"), GetHours());
+                case _T('H'):
+                    n = GetHours();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_Hour )
+                    {
+                        n %= HOURS_PER_DAY;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        partBiggest = Part_Hour;
+                    }
+
+                    fmtPrefix += _T("02");
                     break;
 
-                case 'l':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%03ld"), GetMilliseconds().ToLong());
+                case _T('l'):
+                    n = GetMilliseconds().ToLong();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_MSec )
+                    {
+                        n %= 1000;
+                    }
+                    //else: no need to reset partBiggest to Part_MSec, it is
+                    //      the least significant one anyhow
+
+                    fmtPrefix += _T("03");
                     break;
 
-                case 'M':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%02d"), GetMinutes());
+                case _T('M'):
+                    n = GetMinutes();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_Min )
+                    {
+                        n %= MIN_PER_HOUR;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        partBiggest = Part_Min;
+                    }
+
+                    fmtPrefix += _T("02");
                     break;
 
-                case 'S':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%02ld"), GetSeconds().ToLong());
+                case _T('S'):
+                    n = GetSeconds().ToLong();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_Sec )
+                    {
+                        n %= SEC_PER_MIN;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        partBiggest = Part_Sec;
+                    }
+
+                    fmtPrefix += _T("02");
                     break;
             }
 
-            if ( !!tmp )
-            {
-                str += tmp;
+            str += wxString::Format(fmtPrefix + _T("ld"), n);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // normal character, just copy
+            str += ch;
+        }
+    }
 
-                // skip str += ch below
-                continue;
-            }
+    return str;
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority and related classes
+// ============================================================================
+
+#include "wx/arrimpl.cpp"
+
+WX_DEFINE_OBJARRAY(wxDateTimeArray);
+
+static int wxCMPFUNC_CONV
+wxDateTimeCompareFunc(wxDateTime **first, wxDateTime **second)
+{
+    wxDateTime dt1 = **first,
+               dt2 = **second;
+
+    return dt1 == dt2 ? 0 : dt1 < dt2 ? -1 : +1;
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+wxHolidayAuthoritiesArray wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ms_authorities;
+
+/* static */
+bool wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::IsHoliday(const wxDateTime& dt)
+{
+    size_t count = ms_authorities.size();
+    for ( size_t n = 0; n < count; n++ )
+    {
+        if ( ms_authorities[n]->DoIsHoliday(dt) )
+        {
+            return true;
         }
+    }
+
+    return false;
+}
 
-        str += ch;
+/* static */
+size_t
+wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::GetHolidaysInRange(const wxDateTime& dtStart,
+                                               const wxDateTime& dtEnd,
+                                               wxDateTimeArray& holidays)
+{
+    wxDateTimeArray hol;
+
+    holidays.Clear();
+
+    size_t count = ms_authorities.size();
+    for ( size_t nAuth = 0; nAuth < count; nAuth++ )
+    {
+        ms_authorities[nAuth]->DoGetHolidaysInRange(dtStart, dtEnd, hol);
+
+        WX_APPEND_ARRAY(holidays, hol);
     }
 
-    return str;
+    holidays.Sort(wxDateTimeCompareFunc);
+
+    return holidays.size();
 }
+
+/* static */
+void wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ClearAllAuthorities()
+{
+    WX_CLEAR_ARRAY(ms_authorities);
+}
+
+/* static */
+void wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::AddAuthority(wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority *auth)
+{
+    ms_authorities.push_back(auth);
+}
+
+wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::~wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority()
+{
+    // required here for Darwin
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// wxDateTimeWorkDays
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+bool wxDateTimeWorkDays::DoIsHoliday(const wxDateTime& dt) const
+{
+    wxDateTime::WeekDay wd = dt.GetWeekDay();
+
+    return (wd == wxDateTime::Sun) || (wd == wxDateTime::Sat);
+}
+
+size_t wxDateTimeWorkDays::DoGetHolidaysInRange(const wxDateTime& dtStart,
+                                                const wxDateTime& dtEnd,
+                                                wxDateTimeArray& holidays) const
+{
+    if ( dtStart > dtEnd )
+    {
+        wxFAIL_MSG( _T("invalid date range in GetHolidaysInRange") );
+
+        return 0u;
+    }
+
+    holidays.Empty();
+
+    // instead of checking all days, start with the first Sat after dtStart and
+    // end with the last Sun before dtEnd
+    wxDateTime dtSatFirst = dtStart.GetNextWeekDay(wxDateTime::Sat),
+               dtSatLast = dtEnd.GetPrevWeekDay(wxDateTime::Sat),
+               dtSunFirst = dtStart.GetNextWeekDay(wxDateTime::Sun),
+               dtSunLast = dtEnd.GetPrevWeekDay(wxDateTime::Sun),
+               dt;
+
+    for ( dt = dtSatFirst; dt <= dtSatLast; dt += wxDateSpan::Week() )
+    {
+        holidays.Add(dt);
+    }
+
+    for ( dt = dtSunFirst; dt <= dtSunLast; dt += wxDateSpan::Week() )
+    {
+        holidays.Add(dt);
+    }
+
+    return holidays.GetCount();
+}
+
+#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME