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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// Name:        wx/datetime.h
+// Name:        src/common/datetime.cpp
 // Purpose:     implementation of time/date related classes
 // Author:      Vadim Zeitlin
 // Modified by:
@@ -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
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 /*
 // headers
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#ifdef __GNUG__
-    #pragma implementation "datetime.h"
-#endif
-
 // For compilers that support precompilation, includes "wx.h".
 #include "wx/wxprec.h"
 
     #pragma hdrstop
 #endif
 
+#if !defined(wxUSE_DATETIME) || wxUSE_DATETIME
+
 #ifndef WX_PRECOMP
+    #ifdef __WXMSW__
+        #include "wx/msw/wrapwin.h"
+    #endif
     #include "wx/string.h"
-    #include "wx/intl.h"
     #include "wx/log.h"
+    #include "wx/intl.h"
+    #include "wx/stopwatch.h"           // for wxGetLocalTimeMillis()
     #include "wx/module.h"
+    #include "wx/crt.h"
 #endif // WX_PRECOMP
 
 #include "wx/thread.h"
 #include "wx/tokenzr.h"
 
-#define wxDEFINE_TIME_CONSTANTS // before including datetime.h
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+#ifdef __WINDOWS__
+    #include <winnls.h>
+    #ifndef __WXWINCE__
+        #include <locale.h>
+    #endif
+#endif
 
 #include "wx/datetime.h"
 
+const long wxDateTime::TIME_T_FACTOR = 1000l;
+
+#if wxUSE_EXTENDED_RTTI
+
+template<> void wxStringReadValue(const wxString &s , wxDateTime &data )
+{
+    data.ParseFormat(s,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", NULL);
+}
+
+template<> void wxStringWriteValue(wxString &s , const wxDateTime &data )
+{
+    s = data.Format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
+}
+
+wxCUSTOM_TYPE_INFO(wxDateTime, wxToStringConverter<wxDateTime> , wxFromStringConverter<wxDateTime>)
+
+#endif // wxUSE_EXTENDED_RTTI
+
+//
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // 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(__BORLANDC__) || defined(__MINGW32__) || defined(__VISAGECPP__)
+#if defined(HAVE_STRPTIME) && defined(__DARWIN__) && defined(_MSL_USING_MW_C_HEADERS) && _MSL_USING_MW_C_HEADERS
+    // configure detects strptime as linkable because it's in the OS X
+    // System library but MSL headers don't declare it.
+
+//    char *strptime(const char *, const char *, struct tm *);
+    // However, we DON'T want to just provide it here because we would
+    // crash and/or overwrite data when strptime from OS X tries
+    // to fill in MW's struct tm which is two fields shorter (no TZ stuff)
+    // So for now let's just say we don't have strptime
+    #undef HAVE_STRPTIME
+#endif
+
+#if defined(__MWERKS__) && wxUSE_UNICODE
+    #include <wtime.h>
+#endif
+
+#if !defined(WX_TIMEZONE) && !defined(WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM)
+    #if defined(__WXPALMOS__)
+        #define WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
+    #elif 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
+    #elif defined(__WXWINCE__) && defined(__VISUALC8__)
+        // _timezone is not present in dynamic run-time library
+        #if 0
+        // Solution (1): use the function equivalent of _timezone
+        static long wxGetTimeZone()
+        {
+            static long s_Timezone = MAXLONG; // invalid timezone
+            if (s_Timezone == MAXLONG)
+            {
+                int t;
+                _get_timezone(& t);
+                s_Timezone = (long) t;
+            }
+            return s_Timezone;
+        }
+        #define WX_TIMEZONE wxGetTimeZone()
+        #elif 1
+        // Solution (2): using GetTimeZoneInformation
+        static long wxGetTimeZone()
+        {
+            static long timezone = MAXLONG; // invalid timezone
+            if (timezone == MAXLONG)
+            {
+                TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION tzi;
+                ::GetTimeZoneInformation(&tzi);
+                timezone = tzi.Bias;
+            }
+            return timezone;
+        }
+        #define WX_TIMEZONE wxGetTimeZone()
+        #else
+        // Old method using _timezone: this symbol doesn't exist in the dynamic run-time library (i.e. using /MD)
         #define WX_TIMEZONE _timezone
+        #endif
     #else // unknown platform - try timezone
         #define WX_TIMEZONE timezone
     #endif
-#endif // !WX_TIMEZONE
+#endif // !WX_TIMEZONE && !WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
+
+// everyone has strftime except Win CE unless VC8 is used
+#if !defined(__WXWINCE__) || defined(__VISUALC8__)
+    #define HAVE_STRFTIME
+#endif
+
+// NB: VC8 safe time functions could/should be used for wxMSW as well probably
+#if defined(__WXWINCE__) && defined(__VISUALC8__)
+
+struct tm *wxLocaltime_r(const time_t *t, struct tm* tm)
+{
+    __time64_t t64 = *t;
+    return _localtime64_s(tm, &t64) == 0 ? tm : NULL;
+}
+
+struct tm *wxGmtime_r(const time_t* t, struct tm* tm)
+{
+    __time64_t t64 = *t;
+    return _gmtime64_s(tm, &t64) == 0 ? tm : NULL;
+}
+
+#else // !wxWinCE with VC8
+
+#if (!defined(HAVE_LOCALTIME_R) || !defined(HAVE_GMTIME_R)) && wxUSE_THREADS && !defined(__WINDOWS__)
+static wxMutex timeLock;
+#endif
+
+#ifndef HAVE_LOCALTIME_R
+struct tm *wxLocaltime_r(const time_t* ticks, struct tm* temp)
+{
+#if wxUSE_THREADS && !defined(__WINDOWS__)
+  // No need to waste time with a mutex on windows since it's using
+  // thread local storage for localtime anyway.
+  wxMutexLocker locker(timeLock);
+#endif
+
+  // Borland CRT crashes when passed 0 ticks for some reason, see SF bug 1704438
+#ifdef __BORLANDC__
+  if ( !*ticks )
+      return NULL;
+#endif
+
+  const tm * const t = localtime(ticks);
+  if ( !t )
+      return NULL;
+
+  memcpy(temp, t, sizeof(struct tm));
+  return temp;
+}
+#endif // !HAVE_LOCALTIME_R
+
+#ifndef HAVE_GMTIME_R
+struct tm *wxGmtime_r(const time_t* ticks, struct tm* temp)
+{
+#if wxUSE_THREADS && !defined(__WINDOWS__)
+  // No need to waste time with a mutex on windows since it's
+  // using thread local storage for gmtime anyway.
+  wxMutexLocker locker(timeLock);
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __BORLANDC__
+  if ( !*ticks )
+      return NULL;
+#endif
+
+  const tm * const t = gmtime(ticks);
+  if ( !t )
+      return NULL;
+
+  memcpy(temp, gmtime(ticks), sizeof(struct tm));
+  return temp;
+}
+#endif // !HAVE_GMTIME_R
+
+#endif // wxWinCE with VC8/other platforms
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// macros
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// debugging helper: just a convenient replacement of wxCHECK()
+#define wxDATETIME_CHECK(expr, msg) \
+    wxCHECK2_MSG(expr, *this = wxInvalidDateTime; return *this, msg)
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // private classes
@@ -111,12 +296,13 @@ public:
     {
         wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::AddAuthority(new wxDateTimeWorkDays);
 
-        return TRUE;
+        return true;
     }
 
     virtual void OnExit()
     {
         wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ClearAllAuthorities();
+        wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ms_authorities.clear();
     }
 
 private:
@@ -132,21 +318,30 @@ IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxDateTimeHolidaysModule, wxModule)
 // 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
 // (i.e. JDN(Jan 1, 1970) = 2440587.5)
 static const long EPOCH_JDN = 2440587l;
 
+// used only in asserts
+#ifdef __WXDEBUG__
 // the date of JDN -0.5 (as we don't work with fractional parts, this is the
 // reference date for us) is Nov 24, 4714BC
 static const int JDN_0_YEAR = -4713;
 static const int JDN_0_MONTH = wxDateTime::Nov;
 static const int JDN_0_DAY = 24;
+#endif // __WXDEBUG__
 
 // the constants used for JDN calculations
 static const long JDN_OFFSET         = 32046l;
@@ -166,33 +361,28 @@ static const wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t gs_cumulatedDays[2][MONTHS_IN_YEAR] =
 // global data
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-static wxDateTime gs_dtDefault;
+const char *wxDefaultDateTimeFormat = "%c";
+const char *wxDefaultTimeSpanFormat = "%H:%M:%S";
 
-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
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-// a critical section is needed to protect GetTimeZone() static
-// variable in MT case
-#if wxUSE_THREADS
-    static wxCriticalSection gs_critsectTimezone;
-#endif // wxUSE_THREADS
-
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // private functions
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 // debugger helper: shows what the date really is
 #ifdef __WXDEBUG__
-extern const wxChar *wxDumpDate(const wxDateTime* dt)
+extern const char *wxDumpDate(const wxDateTime* dt)
 {
-    static wxChar buf[20];
+    static char buf[128];
 
-    wxStrcpy(buf, dt->Format(_T("%Y-%m-%d (%a) %H:%M:%S")));
+    wxString fmt(dt->Format("%Y-%m-%d (%a) %H:%M:%S"));
+    wxStrncpy(buf, fmt + " (" + dt->GetValue().ToString() + " ticks)",
+              WXSIZEOF(buf));
 
     return buf;
 }
@@ -213,25 +403,36 @@ 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);
+    // 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 wxLocaltime_r
     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);
+        // just call wxLocaltime_r() instead of figuring out whether this
+        // system supports tzset(), _tzset() or something else
+        time_t t = 0;
+        struct tm tm;
 
-        s_timezoneSet = TRUE;
+        wxLocaltime_r(&t, &tm);
+        s_timezoneSet = true;
+
+#ifdef WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
+        // 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;
+#else // !WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
+        gmtoffset = WX_TIMEZONE;
+#endif // WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM/!WX_GMTOFF_IN_TM
     }
 
-    return (int)WX_TIMEZONE;
+    return (int)gmtoffset;
 }
 
 // return the integral part of the JDN for the midnight of the given date (to
@@ -274,28 +475,75 @@ static long GetTruncatedJDN(wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t day,
             - JDN_OFFSET;
 }
 
-// this function is a wrapper around strftime(3)
-static wxString CallStrftime(const wxChar *format, const tm* tm)
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
+
+// this function is a wrapper around strftime(3) adding error checking
+static wxString CallStrftime(const wxString& format, const tm* tm)
 {
     wxChar buf[4096];
+    // Create temp wxString here to work around mingw/cygwin bug 1046059
+    // http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102435&aid=1046059&group_id=2435
+    wxString s;
+
     if ( !wxStrftime(buf, WXSIZEOF(buf), format, tm) )
     {
-        // buffer is too small?
+        // if the format is valid, buffer must be too small?
         wxFAIL_MSG(_T("strftime() failed"));
+
+        buf[0] = '\0';
     }
 
-    return wxString(buf);
+    s = buf;
+    return s;
+}
+
+#endif // HAVE_STRFTIME
+
+#ifdef HAVE_STRPTIME
+
+#if wxUSE_UNIX && !defined(HAVE_STRPTIME_DECL)
+    // configure detected that we had strptime() but not its declaration,
+    // provide it ourselves
+    extern "C" char *strptime(const char *, const char *, struct tm *);
+#endif
+
+// Unicode-friendly strptime() wrapper
+static const wxStringCharType *
+CallStrptime(const wxStringCharType *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_WCHAR
+    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_WCHAR
+    // 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)
 {
     struct tm *tmNow = NULL;
+    struct tm tmstruct;
 
     if ( *year == wxDateTime::Inv_Year )
     {
-        tmNow = wxDateTime::GetTmNow();
+        tmNow = wxDateTime::GetTmNow(&tmstruct);
 
         *year = 1900 + tmNow->tm_year;
     }
@@ -303,7 +551,7 @@ static void ReplaceDefaultYearMonthWithCurrent(int *year,
     if ( *month == wxDateTime::Inv_Month )
     {
         if ( !tmNow )
-            tmNow = wxDateTime::GetTmNow();
+            tmNow = wxDateTime::GetTmNow(&tmstruct);
 
         *month = (wxDateTime::Month)tmNow->tm_mon;
     }
@@ -384,20 +632,33 @@ 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)
+/* static */
+struct tm *wxDateTime::GetTmNow(struct tm *tmstruct)
+{
+    time_t t = GetTimeNow();
+    return wxLocaltime_r(&t, tmstruct);
+}
+
+// scans all digits (but no more than len) and returns the resulting number
+static bool GetNumericToken(size_t len,
+                            const wxStringCharType*& 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
-static wxString GetAlphaToken(const wxChar*& p)
+static wxString GetAlphaToken(const wxStringCharType*& p)
 {
     wxString s;
     while ( wxIsalpha(*p) )
@@ -429,14 +690,14 @@ 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
@@ -452,7 +713,7 @@ 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)((GetTruncatedJDN(mday, mon, year) + 2) % 7);
 }
 
 void wxDateTime::Tm::AddMonths(int monDiff)
@@ -490,7 +751,7 @@ 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);
@@ -544,12 +805,13 @@ wxDateTime::TimeZone::TimeZone(wxDateTime::TZ tz)
         case wxDateTime::GMT10:
         case wxDateTime::GMT11:
         case wxDateTime::GMT12:
+        case wxDateTime::GMT13:
             m_offset = 3600*(tz - wxDateTime::GMT0);
             break;
 
         case wxDateTime::A_CST:
             // Central Standard Time in use in Australia = UTC + 9.5
-            m_offset = 60l*(9*60 + 30);
+            m_offset = 60l*(9*MIN_PER_HOUR + MIN_PER_HOUR/2);
             break;
 
         default:
@@ -584,7 +846,7 @@ bool wxDateTime::IsLeapYear(int year, wxDateTime::Calendar cal)
     {
         wxFAIL_MSG(_T("unknown calendar"));
 
-        return FALSE;
+        return false;
     }
 }
 
@@ -693,8 +955,8 @@ wxDateTime::wxDateTime_t wxDateTime::GetNumberOfDays(wxDateTime::Month month,
 wxString wxDateTime::GetMonthName(wxDateTime::Month month,
                                   wxDateTime::NameFlags flags)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( month != Inv_Month, _T(""), _T("invalid month") );
-
+    wxCHECK_MSG( month != Inv_Month, wxEmptyString, _T("invalid month") );
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
     // notice that we must set all the fields to avoid confusing libc (GNU one
     // gets confused to a crash if we don't do this)
     tm tm;
@@ -702,18 +964,63 @@ wxString wxDateTime::GetMonthName(wxDateTime::Month month,
     tm.tm_mon = month;
 
     return CallStrftime(flags == Name_Abbr ? _T("%b") : _T("%B"), &tm);
+#else // !HAVE_STRFTIME
+    wxString ret;
+    switch(month)
+    {
+        case Jan:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Jan"): wxT("January"));
+            break;
+        case Feb:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Feb"): wxT("Febuary"));
+            break;
+        case Mar:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Mar"): wxT("March"));
+            break;
+        case Apr:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Apr"): wxT("April"));
+            break;
+        case May:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("May"): wxT("May"));
+            break;
+        case Jun:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Jun"): wxT("June"));
+            break;
+        case Jul:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Jul"): wxT("July"));
+            break;
+        case Aug:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Aug"): wxT("August"));
+            break;
+        case Sep:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Sep"): wxT("September"));
+            break;
+        case Oct:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Oct"): wxT("October"));
+            break;
+        case Nov:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Nov"): wxT("November"));
+            break;
+        case Dec:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Dec"): wxT("December"));
+            break;
+    }
+    return ret;
+#endif // HAVE_STRFTIME/!HAVE_STRFTIME
 }
 
 /* static */
 wxString wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName(wxDateTime::WeekDay wday,
                                     wxDateTime::NameFlags flags)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( wday != Inv_WeekDay, _T(""), _T("invalid weekday") );
-
-    // take some arbitrary Sunday
+    wxCHECK_MSG( wday != Inv_WeekDay, wxEmptyString, _T("invalid weekday") );
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
+    // 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;
 
@@ -725,6 +1032,34 @@ wxString wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName(wxDateTime::WeekDay wday,
 
     // ... and call strftime()
     return CallStrftime(flags == Name_Abbr ? _T("%a") : _T("%A"), &tm);
+#else // !HAVE_STRFTIME
+    wxString ret;
+    switch(wday)
+    {
+        case Sun:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Sun") : wxT("Sunday"));
+            break;
+        case Mon:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Mon") : wxT("Monday"));
+            break;
+        case Tue:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Tue") : wxT("Tuesday"));
+            break;
+        case Wed:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Wed") : wxT("Wednesday"));
+            break;
+        case Thu:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Thu") : wxT("Thursday"));
+            break;
+        case Fri:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Fri") : wxT("Friday"));
+            break;
+        case Sat:
+            ret = (flags == Name_Abbr ? wxT("Sat") : wxT("Saturday"));
+            break;
+    }
+    return ret;
+#endif // HAVE_STRFTIME/!HAVE_STRFTIME
 }
 
 /* static */
@@ -732,14 +1067,29 @@ 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)/sizeof(wxChar), _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)/sizeof(wxChar), _T("%p"), &tm) > 0)
+            *pm = wxString(buffer);
+        else
+            *pm = wxString();
     }
 }
 
@@ -752,12 +1102,13 @@ void wxDateTime::GetAmPmStrings(wxString *am, wxString *pm)
 wxDateTime::Country wxDateTime::GetCountry()
 {
     // TODO use LOCALE_ICOUNTRY setting under Win32
-
+#ifndef __WXWINCE__
     if ( ms_country == Country_Unknown )
     {
         // try to guess from the time zone name
         time_t t = time(NULL);
-        struct tm *tm = localtime(&t);
+        struct tm tmstruct;
+        struct tm *tm = wxLocaltime_r(&t, &tmstruct);
 
         wxString tz = CallStrftime(_T("%Z"), tm);
         if ( tz == _T("WET") || tz == _T("WEST") )
@@ -786,6 +1137,9 @@ wxDateTime::Country wxDateTime::GetCountry()
             ms_country = USA;
         }
     }
+#else // __WXWINCE__
+     ms_country = USA;
+#endif // !__WXWINCE__/__WXWINCE__
 
     return ms_country;
 }
@@ -876,9 +1230,6 @@ 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);
     }
     else switch ( country )
     {
@@ -977,9 +1328,6 @@ 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);
     }
     else switch ( country )
     {
@@ -1026,11 +1374,15 @@ 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);
 
@@ -1040,21 +1392,18 @@ 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
     {
@@ -1067,25 +1416,35 @@ 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();
+    struct tm tmstruct;
+    struct tm *tm = GetTmNow(&tmstruct);
+
+    wxDATETIME_CHECK( tm, _T("wxLocaltime_r() failed") );
 
-    wxCHECK_MSG( tm, wxInvalidDateTime, _T("localtime() failed") );
+    // make a copy so it isn't clobbered by the call to mktime() below
+    struct tm tm1(*tm);
 
     // adjust the time
-    tm->tm_hour = hour;
-    tm->tm_min = minute;
-    tm->tm_sec = second;
+    tm1.tm_hour = hour;
+    tm1.tm_min = minute;
+    tm1.tm_sec = second;
 
-    (void)Set(*tm);
+    // and the DST in case it changes on this date
+    struct tm tm2(tm1);
+    mktime(&tm2);
+    if ( tm2.tm_isdst != tm1.tm_isdst )
+        tm1.tm_isdst = tm2.tm_isdst;
+
+    (void)Set(tm1);
 
     // and finally adjust milliseconds
     return SetMillisecond(millisec);
@@ -1099,17 +1458,16 @@ 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;
@@ -1133,7 +1491,10 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(wxDateTime_t day,
         (void)Set(tm);
 
         // and finally adjust milliseconds
-        return SetMillisecond(millisec);
+        if (IsValid())
+            SetMillisecond(millisec);
+
+        return *this;
     }
     else
     {
@@ -1158,9 +1519,9 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Set(double jdn)
     // EPOCH_JDN + 0.5
     jdn -= EPOCH_JDN + 0.5;
 
-    jdn *= MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY;
+    m_time.Assign(jdn*MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY);
 
-    m_time.Assign(jdn);
+    // JDNs always are in UTC, so we don't need any adjustments for time zone
 
     return *this;
 }
@@ -1182,6 +1543,95 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::ResetTime()
     return *this;
 }
 
+wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetDateOnly() const
+{
+    Tm tm = GetTm();
+    tm.msec =
+    tm.sec =
+    tm.min =
+    tm.hour = 0;
+    return wxDateTime(tm);
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 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 tmstruct;
+    struct tm *tm = wxLocaltime_r(&ticks, &tmstruct);
+    wxCHECK_MSG( tm, ULONG_MAX, _T("time can't be represented in DOS format") );
+
+    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
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1194,29 +1644,30 @@ wxDateTime::Tm wxDateTime::GetTm(const TimeZone& tz) const
     if ( time != (time_t)-1 )
     {
         // use C RTL functions
+        struct tm tmstruct;
         tm *tm;
         if ( tz.GetOffset() == -GetTimeZone() )
         {
             // we are working with local time
-            tm = localtime(&time);
+            tm = wxLocaltime_r(&time, &tmstruct);
 
             // should never happen
-            wxCHECK_MSG( tm, Tm(), _T("gmtime() failed") );
+            wxCHECK_MSG( tm, Tm(), _T("wxLocaltime_r() 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
             if ( time >= 0 )
 #endif
             {
-                tm = gmtime(&time);
+                tm = wxGmtime_r(&time, &tmstruct);
 
                 // should never happen
-                wxCHECK_MSG( tm, Tm(), _T("gmtime() failed") );
+                wxCHECK_MSG( tm, Tm(), _T("wxGmtime_r() failed") );
             }
             else
             {
@@ -1226,7 +1677,11 @@ 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
     }
@@ -1258,18 +1713,18 @@ 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 )
@@ -1288,26 +1743,24 @@ 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 % SEC_PER_MIN);
     timeOnly -= tm.sec;
-    timeOnly /= 60;                 // now we have time in minutes
+    timeOnly /= SEC_PER_MIN;        // now we have time in minutes
 
-    tm.min = timeOnly % 60;
+    tm.min = (wxDateTime_t)(timeOnly % MIN_PER_HOUR);
     timeOnly -= tm.min;
 
-    tm.hour = timeOnly / 60;
+    tm.hour = (wxDateTime_t)(timeOnly / MIN_PER_HOUR);
 
     return tm;
 }
@@ -1427,22 +1880,66 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::Add(const wxDateSpan& diff)
 // Weekday and monthday stuff
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-bool wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek(wxDateTime_t numWeek, WeekDay weekday)
+// convert Sun, Mon, ..., Sat into 6, 0, ..., 5
+static inline int ConvertWeekDayToMondayBase(int wd)
 {
-    int year = GetYear();
+    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;
+}
+
+#if WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6
+// 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
-    Set(4, Jan, year);
-    SetToWeekDayInSameWeek(weekday) += wxDateSpan::Weeks(numWeek);
+    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 false;
     }
 
-    return TRUE;
+    return true;
+}
+
+wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetWeek(wxDateTime_t numWeek,
+                               WeekDay weekday,
+                               WeekFlags flags) const
+{
+    return ::SetToTheWeek(GetYear(), numWeek, weekday, flags);
 }
+#endif // WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6
 
 wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToLastMonthDay(Month month,
                                           int year)
@@ -1456,29 +1953,49 @@ 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();
-    if ( weekday == wdayThis )
+    int wdayDst = weekday,
+        wdayThis = GetWeekDay();
+    if ( wdayDst == 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;
+        if ( wdayDst == Sun )
+            wdayDst += 7;
+    }
+    //else: Sunday_First, nothing to do
+
+    // go forward or back in time to the day we want
+    if ( wdayDst < wdayThis )
     {
-        return Substract(wxDateSpan::Days(wdayThis - weekday));
+        return Subtract(wxDateSpan::Days(wdayThis - wdayDst));
     }
     else // weekday > wdayThis
     {
-        return Add(wxDateSpan::Days(weekday - wdayThis));
+        return Add(wxDateSpan::Days(wdayDst - 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();
@@ -1502,7 +2019,7 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToNextWeekDay(WeekDay weekday)
 
 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();
@@ -1521,7 +2038,7 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetToPrevWeekDay(WeekDay weekday)
         diff = wdayThis - weekday;
     }
 
-    return Substract(wxDateSpan::Days(diff));
+    return Subtract(wxDateSpan::Days(diff));
 }
 
 bool wxDateTime::SetToWeekDay(WeekDay weekday,
@@ -1529,9 +2046,9 @@ 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
@@ -1583,52 +2100,87 @@ 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;
+        // FIXME: First week is not calculated correctly.
+        week = (nDayInYear - wdTarget + 7) / 7;
+        if ( wdYearStart == Wed || wdYearStart == Thu )
+            week++;
     }
-    else
+    else // week starts with monday
     {
-        // have to shift the week days values
-        week = (nDayInYear - (wd - 1 + 7) % 7 + 7) / 7;
-    }
+        // adjust the weekdays to non-US style.
+        wdYearStart = ConvertWeekDayToMondayBase(wdYearStart);
+        wdTarget = ConvertWeekDayToMondayBase(wdTarget);
 
-    // FIXME some more elegant way??
-    WeekDay wdYearStart = wxDateTime(1, Jan, GetYear()).GetWeekDay();
-    if ( wdYearStart == Wed || wdYearStart == Thu )
-    {
-        week++;
+        // 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;
+
+            // 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,
@@ -1636,27 +2188,22 @@ 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;
-#ifdef __VMS__ // nWeek is unsigned so avoid the warning
-   int nweek2 = (int) nWeek;
-   if ( nweek2 < 0 )
-#else
+    int nWeek = GetWeekOfYear(flags) - dtMonthStart.GetWeekOfYear(flags) + 1;
     if ( nWeek < 0 )
-#endif
     {
         // this may happen for January when Jan, 1 is the last week of the
         // previous year
         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) )
@@ -1664,9 +2211,9 @@ 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;
         }
@@ -1681,16 +2228,7 @@ 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));
-
-    double result = GetTruncatedJDN(tm.mday, tm.mon, tm.year);
-
-    // add the part GetTruncatedJDN() neglected
-    result += 0.5;
-
-    // and now add the time: 86400 sec = 1 JDN
-    return result + ((double)(60*(60*tm.hour + tm.min) + tm.sec)) / 86400;
+    return m_time.ToDouble() / MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY + EPOCH_JDN + 0.5;
 }
 
 double wxDateTime::GetRataDie() const
@@ -1712,9 +2250,10 @@ int wxDateTime::IsDST(wxDateTime::Country country) const
     time_t timet = GetTicks();
     if ( timet != (time_t)-1 )
     {
-        tm *tm = localtime(&timet);
+        struct tm tmstruct;
+        tm *tm = wxLocaltime_r(&timet, &tmstruct);
 
-        wxCHECK_MSG( tm, -1, _T("localtime() failed") );
+        wxCHECK_MSG( tm, -1, _T("wxLocaltime_r() failed") );
 
         return tm->tm_isdst;
     }
@@ -1734,7 +2273,7 @@ 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
@@ -1744,45 +2283,66 @@ wxDateTime& wxDateTime::MakeTimezone(const TimeZone& tz, bool noDST)
         secDiff -= 3600;
     }
 
-    return Substract(wxTimeSpan::Seconds(secDiff));
+    return Add(wxTimeSpan::Seconds(secDiff));
 }
 
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// wxDateTime to/from text representations
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
+wxDateTime& wxDateTime::MakeFromTimezone(const TimeZone& tz, bool noDST)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( format, _T(""), _T("NULL format in wxDateTime::Format") );
+    long secDiff = GetTimeZone() + tz.GetOffset();
 
-    time_t time = GetTicks();
-    if ( time != (time_t)-1 )
+    // we need to know whether DST is or not in effect for this date unless
+    // the test disabled by the caller
+    if ( !noDST && (IsDST() == 1) )
     {
-        // use strftime()
-        tm *tm;
+        // FIXME we assume that the DST is always shifted by 1 hour
+        secDiff -= 3600;
+    }
+
+    return Subtract(wxTimeSpan::Seconds(secDiff));
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// wxDateTime to/from text representations
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxString& format, const TimeZone& tz) const
+{
+    wxCHECK_MSG( !format.empty(), wxEmptyString,
+                 _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
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
+    time_t time = GetTicks();
+
+    if ( (time != (time_t)-1) && !wxStrstr(format, _T("%l")) )
+    {
+        // use strftime()
+        struct tm tmstruct;
+        struct tm *tm;
         if ( tz.GetOffset() == -GetTimeZone() )
         {
             // we are working with local time
-            tm = localtime(&time);
+            tm = wxLocaltime_r(&time, &tmstruct);
 
             // should never happen
-            wxCHECK_MSG( tm, wxEmptyString, _T("localtime() failed") );
+            wxCHECK_MSG( tm, wxEmptyString, _T("wxLocaltime_r() failed") );
         }
         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
             if ( time >= 0 )
 #endif
             {
-                tm = gmtime(&time);
+                tm = wxGmtime_r(&time, &tmstruct);
 
                 // should never happen
-                wxCHECK_MSG( tm, wxEmptyString, _T("gmtime() failed") );
+                wxCHECK_MSG( tm, wxEmptyString, _T("wxGmtime_r() failed") );
             }
             else
             {
@@ -1794,11 +2354,13 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
         {
             return CallStrftime(format, tm);
         }
-        //else: use generic code below
     }
+    //else: use generic code below
+#endif // HAVE_STRFTIME
 
     // 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
@@ -1814,7 +2376,7 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
     tmTimeOnly.tm_isdst = 0;        // no DST, we adjust for tz ourselves
 
     wxString tmp, res, fmt;
-    for ( const wxChar *p = format; *p; p++ )
+    for ( wxString::const_iterator p = format.begin(); p != format.end(); ++p )
     {
         if ( *p != _T('%') )
         {
@@ -1825,16 +2387,21 @@ wxString wxDateTime::Format(const wxChar *format, const TimeZone& tz) const
         }
 
         // set the default format
-        switch ( *++p )
+        switch ( (*++p).GetValue() )
         {
             case _T('Y'):               // year has 4 digits
                 fmt = _T("%04d");
                 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
@@ -1843,257 +2410,270 @@ 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;
-
-            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!
-                {
-                    // 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)
-                    }
+            restart = false;
 
-                    int nCentury = year / 100,
-                        nCenturyReal = yearReal / 100;
+            // start of the format specification
+            switch ( (*p).GetValue() )
+            {
+                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;
 
-                    // 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);
+                case _T('b'):       // a month name
+                case _T('B'):
+                    res += GetMonthName(tm.mon,
+                                        *p == _T('b') ? Name_Abbr : Name_Full);
+                    break;
 
-                    // 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 )
+                case _T('c'):       // locale default date and time  representation
+                case _T('x'):       // locale default date representation
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    //
+                    // 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 occurrences 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 occurrences of YEAR"
+                    // means all occurrences 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!
                     {
-                        nLostWeekDays += year++ % 4 ? 1 : 2;
-                    }
+                        // find the YEAR: normally, for any year X, Jan 1 of 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)
+                        }
 
-                    // at any rate, we couldn't go further than 1988 + 9 + 28!
-                    wxASSERT_MSG( year < 2030,
-                                  _T("logic error in wxDateTime::Format") );
+                        int nCentury = year / 100,
+                            nCenturyReal = yearReal / 100;
 
-                    wxString strYear, strYear2;
-                    strYear.Printf(_T("%d"), year);
-                    strYear2.Printf(_T("%d"), year % 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);
 
-                    // 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;
-                    }
+                        // 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;
+                        }
 
-                    wxString replacement2 = (wxChar)-2;
-                    while ( fmt.Find(replacement) != wxNOT_FOUND )
-                    {
-                        replacement << (wxChar)-2;
+                        // finally move the year below 2000 so that the 2-digit
+                        // year number can never match the month or day of the
+                        // month when we do the replacements below
+                        if ( year >= 2000 )
+                            year -= 28;
+
+                        wxASSERT_MSG( year >= 1970 && year < 2000,
+                                      _T("logic error in wxDateTime::Format") );
+
+
+                        // 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 replacement year with the real year:
+                        // notice that we have to replace the 4 digit year with
+                        // a unique string not appearing in strftime() output
+                        // first to prevent the 2 digit year from matching any
+                        // substring of the 4 digit year (but any day, month,
+                        // hours or minutes components should be safe because
+                        // they are never in 70-99 range)
+                        wxString replacement("|");
+                        while ( str.find(replacement) != wxString::npos )
+                            replacement += '|';
+
+                        str.Replace(wxString::Format("%d", year),
+                                    replacement);
+                        str.Replace(wxString::Format("%d", year % 100),
+                                    wxString::Format("%d", yearReal % 100));
+                        str.Replace(replacement,
+                                    wxString::Format("%d", yearReal));
+
+                        res += str;
                     }
+#else // !HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    // Use "%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S" format instead
+                    res += wxString::Format(wxT("%02d/%02d/%04d %02d:%02d:%02d"),
+                            tm.mon+1,tm.mday, tm.year, tm.hour, tm.min, tm.sec);
+#endif // HAVE_STRFTIME/!HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    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('d'):       // day of a month (01-31)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.mday);
-                break;
-
-            case _T('H'):       // hour in 24h format (00-23)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.hour);
-                break;
+                case _T('j'):       // day of the year
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetDayOfYear(tz));
+                    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('l'):       // milliseconds (NOT STANDARD)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetMillisecond(tz));
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('j'):       // day of the year
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetDayOfYear(tz));
-                break;
+                case _T('m'):       // month as a number (01-12)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.mon + 1);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('m'):       // month as a number (01-12)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.mon + 1);
-                break;
+                case _T('M'):       // minute as a decimal number (00-59)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.min);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('M'):       // minute as a decimal number (00-59)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.min);
-                break;
+                case _T('p'):       // AM or PM string
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    res += CallStrftime(_T("%p"), &tmTimeOnly);
+#else // !HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    res += (tmTimeOnly.tm_hour > 12) ? wxT("pm") : wxT("am");
+#endif // HAVE_STRFTIME/!HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('p'):       // AM or PM string
-                res += CallStrftime(_T("%p"), &tmTimeOnly);
-                break;
+                case _T('S'):       // second as a decimal number (00-61)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.sec);
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('S'):       // second as a decimal number (00-61)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.sec);
-                break;
+                case _T('U'):       // week number in the year (Sunday 1st week day)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Sunday_First, tz));
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('U'):       // week number in the year (Sunday 1st week day)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Sunday_First, tz));
-                break;
+                case _T('W'):       // week number in the year (Monday 1st week day)
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Monday_First, tz));
+                    break;
 
-            case _T('W'):       // week number in the year (Monday 1st week day)
-                res += wxString::Format(fmt, GetWeekOfYear(Monday_First, tz));
-                break;
+                case _T('w'):       // weekday as a number (0-6), Sunday = 0
+                    res += wxString::Format(fmt, tm.GetWeekDay());
+                    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'): -- handled with "%c"
+                case _T('X'):       // locale default time representation
+                    // just use strftime() to format the time for us
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    res += CallStrftime(_T("%X"), &tmTimeOnly);
+#else // !HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    res += wxString::Format(wxT("%02d:%02d:%02d"),tm.hour, tm.min, tm.sec);
+#endif // HAVE_STRFTIME/!HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    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('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
+#ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
+                    res += CallStrftime(_T("%Z"), &tmTimeOnly);
+#endif
+                    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;
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -2108,12 +2688,12 @@ restart:
 // RFC822 time specs.
 //
 // TODO a great candidate for using reg exps
-const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
+const char *
+wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( date, (wxChar *)NULL, _T("NULL pointer in wxDateTime::Parse") );
-
-    const wxChar *p = date;
-    const wxChar *comma = wxStrchr(p, _T(','));
+    // TODO: rewrite using iterators instead of wxChar pointers
+    const wxStringCharType *p = date.wx_str();
+    const wxStringCharType *comma = wxStrchr(p, wxS(','));
     if ( comma )
     {
         // the part before comma is the weekday
@@ -2126,7 +2706,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
         {
             wxLogDebug(_T("no space after weekday in RFC822 time spec"));
 
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
         p++; // skip space
@@ -2137,19 +2717,19 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
     {
         wxLogDebug(_T("day number expected in RFC822 time spec, none found"));
 
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return 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(' ') )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     // the following 3 letters specify the month
@@ -2183,21 +2763,21 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
     {
         wxLogDebug(_T("Invalid RFC 822 month name '%s'"), monName.c_str());
 
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     p += 3;
 
     if ( *p++ != _T(' ') )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     // next is the year
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
         // no year?
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     int year = *p++ - _T('0');
@@ -2205,7 +2785,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
         // should have at least 2 digits in the year
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     year *= 10;
@@ -2220,7 +2800,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
         if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
         {
             // no 3 digit years please
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
         year *= 10;
@@ -2229,71 +2809,72 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
 
     if ( *p++ != _T(' ') )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     // time is in the format hh:mm:ss and seconds are optional
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
-    wxDateTime_t hour = *p++ - _T('0');
+    wxDateTime_t hour = (wxDateTime_t)(*p++ - _T('0'));
 
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     hour *= 10;
-    hour += *p++ - _T('0');
+    hour = (wxDateTime_t)(hour + (*p++ - _T('0')));
 
     if ( *p++ != _T(':') )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
-    wxDateTime_t min = *p++ - _T('0');
+    wxDateTime_t min = (wxDateTime_t)(*p++ - _T('0'));
 
     if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     min *= 10;
-    min += *p++ - _T('0');
+    min = (wxDateTime_t)(min + *p++ - _T('0'));
 
     wxDateTime_t sec = 0;
-    if ( *p++ == _T(':') )
+    if ( *p == _T(':') )
     {
+        p++;
         if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
         {
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
-        sec = *p++ - _T('0');
+        sec = (wxDateTime_t)(*p++ - _T('0'));
 
         if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
         {
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
         sec *= 10;
-        sec += *p++ - _T('0');
+        sec = (wxDateTime_t)(sec + *p++ - _T('0'));
     }
 
     if ( *p++ != _T(' ') )
     {
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
     // and now the interesting part: the timezone
-    int offset;
+    int offset wxDUMMY_INITIALIZE(0);
     if ( *p == _T('-') || *p == _T('+') )
     {
         // the explicit offset given: it has the form of hhmm
@@ -2301,17 +2882,17 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
 
         if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) || !wxIsdigit(*(p + 1)) )
         {
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
         // hours
-        offset = 60*(10*(*p - _T('0')) + (*(p + 1) - _T('0')));
+        offset = MIN_PER_HOUR*(10*(*p - _T('0')) + (*(p + 1) - _T('0')));
 
         p += 2;
 
         if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) || !wxIsdigit(*(p + 1)) )
         {
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
         // minutes
@@ -2343,7 +2924,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
             {
                 wxLogDebug(_T("Invalid militaty timezone '%c'"), *p);
 
-                return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                return NULL;
             }
 
             offset = offsets[*p++ - _T('A')];
@@ -2378,45 +2959,210 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
             {
                 wxLogDebug(_T("Unknown RFC 822 timezone '%s'"), p);
 
-                return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                return NULL;
             }
 
             p += tz.length();
         }
 
         // make it minutes
-        offset *= 60;
+        offset *= MIN_PER_HOUR;
     }
 
-    // the spec was correct
+    // the spec was correct, construct the date from the values we found
     Set(day, mon, year, hour, min, sec);
-    MakeTimezone((wxDateTime_t)(60*offset));
+    MakeFromTimezone(TimeZone::Make(offset*SEC_PER_MIN));
 
-    return p;
+    const size_t endpos = p - date.wx_str();
+    if ( end )
+        *end = date.begin() + endpos;
+
+    return date.c_str() + endpos;
 }
 
-const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
-                                      const wxChar *format,
-                                      const wxDateTime& dateDef)
+#ifdef __WINDOWS__
+
+// returns the string containing strftime() format used for short dates in the
+// current locale or an empty string
+static wxString GetLocaleDateFormat()
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( date && format, (wxChar *)NULL,
-                 _T("NULL pointer in wxDateTime::ParseFormat()") );
+    wxString fmtWX;
+
+    // there is no setlocale() under Windows CE, so just always query the
+    // system there
+#ifndef __WXWINCE__
+    if ( strcmp(setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL), "C") != 0 )
+#endif
+    {
+        // The locale was programatically set to non-C. We assume that this was
+        // done using wxLocale, in which case thread's current locale is also
+        // set to correct LCID value and we can use GetLocaleInfo to determine
+        // the correct formatting string:
+#ifdef __WXWINCE__
+        LCID lcid = LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT;
+#else
+        LCID lcid = GetThreadLocale();
+#endif
+        // according to MSDN 80 chars is max allowed for short date format
+        wxChar fmt[81];
+        if ( ::GetLocaleInfo(lcid, LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, fmt, WXSIZEOF(fmt)) )
+        {
+            wxChar chLast = _T('\0');
+            size_t lastCount = 0;
+            for ( const wxChar *p = fmt; /* NUL handled inside */; p++ )
+            {
+                if ( *p == chLast )
+                {
+                    lastCount++;
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                switch ( *p )
+                {
+                    // these characters come in groups, start counting them
+                    case _T('d'):
+                    case _T('M'):
+                    case _T('y'):
+                    case _T('g'):
+                        chLast = *p;
+                        lastCount = 1;
+                        break;
+
+                    default:
+                        // first deal with any special characters we have had
+                        if ( lastCount )
+                        {
+                            switch ( chLast )
+                            {
+                                case _T('d'):
+                                    switch ( lastCount )
+                                    {
+                                        case 1: // d
+                                        case 2: // dd
+                                            // these two are the same as we
+                                            // don't distinguish between 1 and
+                                            // 2 digits for days
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%d");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        case 3: // ddd
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%a");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        case 4: // dddd
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%A");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        default:
+                                            wxFAIL_MSG( _T("too many 'd's") );
+                                    }
+                                    break;
+
+                                case _T('M'):
+                                    switch ( lastCount )
+                                    {
+                                        case 1: // M
+                                        case 2: // MM
+                                            // as for 'd' and 'dd' above
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%m");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        case 3:
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%b");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        case 4:
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%B");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        default:
+                                            wxFAIL_MSG( _T("too many 'M's") );
+                                    }
+                                    break;
+
+                                case _T('y'):
+                                    switch ( lastCount )
+                                    {
+                                        case 1: // y
+                                        case 2: // yy
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%y");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        case 4: // yyyy
+                                            fmtWX += _T("%Y");
+                                            break;
+
+                                        default:
+                                            wxFAIL_MSG( _T("wrong number of 'y's") );
+                                    }
+                                    break;
+
+                                case _T('g'):
+                                    // strftime() doesn't have era string,
+                                    // ignore this format
+                                    wxASSERT_MSG( lastCount <= 2,
+                                                  _T("too many 'g's") );
+                                    break;
+
+                                default:
+                                    wxFAIL_MSG( _T("unreachable") );
+                            }
+
+                            chLast = _T('\0');
+                            lastCount = 0;
+                        }
+
+                        // not a special character so must be just a separator,
+                        // treat as is
+                        if ( *p != _T('\0') )
+                        {
+                            if ( *p == _T('%') )
+                            {
+                                // this one needs to be escaped
+                                fmtWX += _T('%');
+                            }
+
+                            fmtWX += *p;
+                        }
+                }
+
+                if ( *p == _T('\0') )
+                    break;
+            }
+        }
+        //else: GetLocaleInfo() failed, leave fmtDate value unchanged and
+        //      try our luck with the default formats
+    }
+    //else: default C locale, default formats should work
+
+    return fmtWX;
+}
+
+#endif // __WINDOWS__
+
+const char *
+wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxString& date,
+                        const wxString& format,
+                        const wxDateTime& dateDef,
+                        wxString::const_iterator *end)
+{
+    wxCHECK_MSG( !format.empty(), NULL, "format can't be empty" );
 
     wxString str;
     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,
@@ -2428,8 +3174,8 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
     wxDateTime::Month mon = Inv_Month;
     int year = 0;
 
-    const wxChar *input = date;
-    for ( const wxChar *fmt = format; *fmt; fmt++ )
+    const wxStringCharType *input = date.wx_str();
+    for ( wxString::const_iterator fmt = format.begin(); fmt != format.end(); ++fmt )
     {
         if ( *fmt != _T('%') )
         {
@@ -2449,7 +3195,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 if ( *input++ != *fmt )
                 {
                     // no match
-                    return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                    return NULL;
                 }
             }
 
@@ -2458,7 +3204,41 @@ 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).GetValue() )
+            {
+                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).GetValue() )
         {
             case _T('a'):       // a weekday name
             case _T('A'):
@@ -2468,10 +3248,10 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     if ( wday == Inv_WeekDay )
                     {
                         // no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
                 }
-                haveWDay = TRUE;
+                haveWDay = true;
                 break;
 
             case _T('b'):       // a month name
@@ -2482,41 +3262,32 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     if ( mon == Inv_Month )
                     {
                         // no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
                 }
-                haveMon = TRUE;
+                haveMon = true;
                 break;
 
             case _T('c'):       // locale default date and time  representation
                 {
                     wxDateTime dt;
 
-                    // this is the format which corresponds to ctime() output
-                    // and strptime("%c") should parse it, so try it first
-                    static const wxChar *fmtCtime = _T("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y");
+                    const wxString inc(input);
 
-                    const wxChar *result = dt.ParseFormat(input, fmtCtime);
-                    if ( !result )
-                    {
-                        result = dt.ParseFormat(input, _T("%x %X"));
-                    }
-
-                    if ( !result )
-                    {
-                        result = dt.ParseFormat(input, _T("%X %x"));
-                    }
-
-                    if ( !result )
+                    // try the format which corresponds to ctime() output first
+                    wxString::const_iterator endc;
+                    if ( !dt.ParseFormat(inc, wxS("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"), &endc) &&
+                            !dt.ParseFormat(inc, wxS("%x %X"), &endc) &&
+                                !dt.ParseFormat(inc, wxS("%X %x"), &endc) )
                     {
                         // we've tried everything and still no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
 
                     haveDay = haveMon = haveYear =
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     hour = tm.hour;
                     min = tm.min;
@@ -2526,76 +3297,77 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     mon = tm.mon;
                     mday = tm.mday;
 
-                    input = result;
+                    input += endc - inc.begin();
                 }
                 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;
+                    return NULL;
                 }
 
                 // 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;
+                    return 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;
+                    return 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;
+                    return 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;
+                    return 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;
+                    return NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveMin = TRUE;
+                haveMin = true;
                 min = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
@@ -2604,14 +3376,16 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     wxString am, pm, token = GetAlphaToken(input);
 
                     GetAmPmStrings(&am, &pm);
+                    if (am.empty() && pm.empty())
+                        return NULL;  // no am/pm strings defined
                     if ( token.CmpNoCase(pm) == 0 )
                     {
-                        isPM = TRUE;
+                        isPM = true;
                     }
                     else if ( token.CmpNoCase(am) != 0 )
                     {
                         // no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
                 }
                 break;
@@ -2619,14 +3393,14 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
             case _T('r'):       // time as %I:%M:%S %p
                 {
                     wxDateTime dt;
-                    input = dt.ParseFormat(input, _T("%I:%M:%S %p"));
+                    input = dt.ParseFormat(input, wxS("%I:%M:%S %p"));
                     if ( !input )
                     {
                         // no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
@@ -2638,28 +3412,29 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
             case _T('R'):       // time as %H:%M
                 {
                     wxDateTime dt;
-                    input = dt.ParseFormat(input, _T("%H:%M"));
+                    input = dt.ParseFormat(input, wxS("%H:%M"));
                     if ( !input )
                     {
                         // no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
                     min = tm.min;
                 }
+                break;
 
             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;
+                    return NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveSec = TRUE;
+                haveSec = true;
                 sec = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
@@ -2670,10 +3445,10 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     if ( !input )
                     {
                         // no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
@@ -2683,29 +3458,31 @@ 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;
+                    return 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 wxStringCharType *
+                        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;
@@ -2716,46 +3493,54 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 }
 #endif // HAVE_STRPTIME
 
-                // TODO query the LOCALE_IDATE setting under Win32
                 {
                     wxDateTime dt;
-
-                    wxString fmtDate, fmtDateAlt;
-                    if ( IsWestEuropeanCountry(GetCountry()) ||
-                         GetCountry() == Russia )
+                    wxString fmtDate,
+                             fmtDateAlt;
+
+#ifdef __WINDOWS__
+                    // The above doesn't work for all locales, try to query
+                    // Windows for the right way of formatting the date:
+                    fmtDate = GetLocaleDateFormat();
+                    if ( fmtDate.empty() )
+#endif // __WINDOWS__
                     {
-                        fmtDate = _T("%d/%m/%y");
-                        fmtDateAlt = _T("%m/%d/%y");
-                    }
-                    else // assume USA
-                    {
-                        fmtDate = _T("%m/%d/%y");
-                        fmtDateAlt = _T("%d/%m/%y");
-                    }
-
-                    const wxChar *result = dt.ParseFormat(input, fmtDate);
-
-                    if ( !result )
-                    {
-                        // ok, be nice and try another one
-                        result = dt.ParseFormat(input, fmtDateAlt);
+                        if ( IsWestEuropeanCountry(GetCountry()) ||
+                             GetCountry() == Russia )
+                        {
+                            fmtDate = _T("%d/%m/%y");
+                            fmtDateAlt = _T("%m/%d/%y");
+                        }
+                        else // assume USA
+                        {
+                            fmtDate = _T("%m/%d/%y");
+                            fmtDateAlt = _T("%d/%m/%y");
+                        }
                     }
 
-                    if ( !result )
+                    const wxString indate(input);
+                    wxString::const_iterator endDate;
+                    if ( !dt.ParseFormat(indate, fmtDate, &endDate) )
                     {
-                        // bad luck
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        // try another one if we have it
+                        if ( fmtDateAlt.empty() ||
+                                !dt.ParseFormat(indate, fmtDateAlt, &endDate) )
+                        {
+                            return NULL;
+                        }
                     }
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
 
-                    haveDay = haveMon = haveYear = TRUE;
+                    haveDay =
+                    haveMon =
+                    haveYear = true;
 
                     year = tm.year;
                     mon = tm.mon;
                     mday = tm.mday;
 
-                    input = result;
+                    input += endDate - indate.begin();
                 }
 
                 break;
@@ -2765,13 +3550,13 @@ 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;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = true;
 
                     hour = tm.tm_hour;
                     min = tm.tm_min;
@@ -2787,19 +3572,22 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                     // common cases
                     wxDateTime dt;
 
-                    const wxChar *result = dt.ParseFormat(input, _T("%T"));
+                    const wxStringCharType *
+                        result = dt.ParseFormat(input, wxS("%T"));
                     if ( !result )
                     {
-                        result = dt.ParseFormat(input, _T("%r"));
+                        result = dt.ParseFormat(input, wxS("%r"));
                     }
 
                     if ( !result )
                     {
                         // no match
-                        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                        return NULL;
                     }
 
-                    haveHour = haveMin = haveSec = TRUE;
+                    haveHour =
+                    haveMin =
+                    haveSec = true;
 
                     Tm tm = dt.GetTm();
                     hour = tm.hour;
@@ -2812,24 +3600,27 @@ 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;
+                    return 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;
+                    return NULL;
                 }
 
-                haveYear = TRUE;
+                haveYear = true;
                 year = (wxDateTime_t)num;
                 break;
 
@@ -2841,7 +3632,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 if ( *input++ != _T('%') )
                 {
                     // no match
-                    return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                    return NULL;
                 }
                 break;
 
@@ -2851,7 +3642,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
                 // fall through
 
             default:            // not a known format spec
-                return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                return NULL;
         }
     }
 
@@ -2862,7 +3653,7 @@ 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();
@@ -2890,7 +3681,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
         {
             wxLogDebug(_T("bad month day in wxDateTime::ParseFormat"));
 
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
         tm.mon = mon;
@@ -2902,7 +3693,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
         {
             wxLogDebug(_T("bad year day in wxDateTime::ParseFormat"));
 
-            return (wxChar *)NULL;
+            return NULL;
         }
 
         Tm tm2 = wxDateTime(1, Jan, tm.year).SetToYearDay(yday).GetTm();
@@ -2937,49 +3728,136 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseFormat(const wxChar *date,
 
     Set(tm);
 
-    return input;
+    // 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;
+    }
+
+    const size_t endpos = input - date.wx_str();
+    if ( end )
+        *end = date.begin() + endpos;
+
+    return date.c_str() + endpos;
 }
 
-const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDateTime(const wxChar *date)
+const char *
+wxDateTime::ParseDateTime(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( date, (wxChar *)NULL, _T("NULL pointer in wxDateTime::Parse") );
+    // 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();
+
+    wxString::const_iterator
+        endTime,
+        endDate,
+        endBoth;
+
+    // If we got a date in the beginning, see if there is a time specified
+    // after the date
+    if ( dtDate.ParseDate(date, &endDate) )
+    {
+        // Skip spaces, as the ParseTime() function fails on spaces
+        while ( endDate != date.end() && wxIsspace(*endDate) )
+            ++endDate;
+
+        const wxString timestr(endDate, date.end());
+        if ( !dtTime.ParseTime(timestr, &endTime) )
+            return NULL;
+
+        endBoth = endDate + (endTime - timestr.begin());
+    }
+    else // no date in the beginning
+    {
+        // check if we have a time followed by a date
+        if ( !dtTime.ParseTime(date, &endTime) )
+            return NULL;
+
+        while ( endTime != date.end() && wxIsspace(*endTime) )
+            ++endTime;
+
+        const wxString datestr(endTime, date.end());
+        if ( !dtDate.ParseDate(datestr, &endDate) )
+            return NULL;
 
-    // there is a public domain version of getdate.y, but it only works for
-    // English...
-    wxFAIL_MSG(_T("TODO"));
+        endBoth = endTime + (endDate - datestr.begin());
+    }
+
+    Set(dtDate.GetDay(), dtDate.GetMonth(), dtDate.GetYear(),
+        dtTime.GetHour(), dtTime.GetMinute(), dtTime.GetSecond(),
+        dtTime.GetMillisecond());
 
-    return (wxChar *)NULL;
+    // Return endpoint of scan
+    if ( end )
+        *end = endBoth;
+
+    return date.c_str() + (endBoth - date.begin());
 }
 
-const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
+const char *
+wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxString& date, wxString::const_iterator *end)
 {
     // this is a simplified version of ParseDateTime() which understands only
     // "today" (for wxDate compatibility) and digits only otherwise (and not
     // all esoteric constructions ParseDateTime() knows about)
 
-    wxCHECK_MSG( date, (wxChar *)NULL, _T("NULL pointer in wxDateTime::Parse") );
-
-    const wxChar *p = date;
+    const wxStringCharType *p = date.wx_str();
     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 char *str;
+        int dayDiffFromToday;
+    } literalDates[] =
+    {
+        { wxTRANSLATE("today"),             0 },
+        { wxTRANSLATE("yesterday"),        -1 },
+        { wxTRANSLATE("tomorrow"),          1 },
+    };
 
-        *this = Today();
+    for ( size_t n = 0; n < WXSIZEOF(literalDates); n++ )
+    {
+        const wxString dateStr = wxGetTranslation(literalDates[n].str);
+        size_t len = dateStr.length();
+        if ( wxStrlen(p) >= len )
+        {
+            wxString str(p, len);
+            if ( str.CmpNoCase(dateStr) == 0 )
+            {
+                // nothing can follow this, so stop here
+                p += len;
+
+                int dayDiffFromToday = literalDates[n].dayDiffFromToday;
+                *this = Today();
+                if ( dayDiffFromToday )
+                {
+                    *this += wxDateSpan::Days(dayDiffFromToday);
+                }
+
+                const size_t endpos = p - date.wx_str();
 
-        return p;
+                if ( end )
+                    *end = date.begin() + endpos;
+                return date.c_str() + endpos;
+            }
+        }
     }
 
+    // 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;
@@ -2988,10 +3866,14 @@ 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 wxStringCharType *dateDelimiters = wxS(".,/-\t\r\n ");
+    wxStringTokenizer tok(p, dateDelimiters);
     while ( tok.HasMoreTokens() )
     {
         wxString token = tok.GetNextToken();
+        if ( !token )
+            continue;
 
         // is it a number?
         unsigned long val;
@@ -2999,130 +3881,103 @@ 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 )
+                    // use a leap year if we don't have the year yet to allow
+                    // dates like 2/29/1976 which would be rejected otherwise
+                    wxDateTime_t max_days = (wxDateTime_t)(
+                        haveMon
+                        ? GetNumOfDaysInMonth(haveYear ? year : 1976, mon)
+                        : 31
+                    );
+
+                    // can it be day?
+                    if ( (val == 0) || (val > (unsigned long)max_days) )
                     {
-                        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") );
+                haveMon = true;
 
-                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;
-
-                        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 )
+                WeekDay wday2 = GetWeekDayFromName(token, Name_Full | Name_Abbr);
+                if ( wday2 != Inv_WeekDay )
                 {
                     // a week day
                     if ( haveWDay )
@@ -3130,12 +3985,14 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
                         break;
                     }
 
-                    haveWDay = TRUE;
+                    wday = wday2;
+
+                    haveWDay = true;
                 }
-                else
+                else // not a valid weekday name
                 {
                     // try the ordinals
-                    static const wxChar *ordinals[] =
+                    static const char *ordinals[] =
                     {
                         wxTRANSLATE("first"),
                         wxTRANSLATE("second"),
@@ -3158,7 +4015,7 @@ 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;
@@ -3185,30 +4042,63 @@ 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;
+        return 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
         // specification (what would "Wed 1999" mean?)
-        return (wxChar *)NULL;
+        return 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 NULL;
+        }
     }
 
     if ( !haveMon )
@@ -3223,6 +4113,11 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
 
     if ( haveDay )
     {
+        // normally we check the day above but the check is optimistic in case
+        // we find the day before its month/year so we have to redo it now
+        if ( day > GetNumOfDaysInMonth(year, mon) )
+            return NULL;
+
         Set(day, mon, year);
 
         if ( haveWDay )
@@ -3231,7 +4126,9 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
             if ( GetWeekDay() != wday )
             {
                 // inconsistency detected
-                return (wxChar *)NULL;
+                wxLogDebug(_T("ParseDate: inconsistent day/weekday."));
+
+                return NULL;
             }
         }
     }
@@ -3242,18 +4139,29 @@ 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--;
+    }
+
+    const size_t endpos = p - date.wx_str();
+    if ( end )
+        *end = date.begin() + endpos;
+
+    return date.c_str() + endpos;
 }
 
-const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxChar *time)
+const char *
+wxDateTime::ParseTime(const wxString& time, wxString::const_iterator *end)
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( time, (wxChar *)NULL, _T("NULL pointer in wxDateTime::Parse") );
-
     // first try some extra things
     static const struct
     {
-        const wxChar *name;
+        const char *name;
         wxDateTime_t  hour;
     } stdTimes[] =
     {
@@ -3268,53 +4176,38 @@ 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"));
-    if ( !result )
-    {
-        // normally, it's the same, but why not try it?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%H:%M:%S"));
-    }
-
-    if ( !result )
-    {
-        // 12hour with AM/PM?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I:%M:%S %p"));
-    }
+            if ( end )
+                *end = time.begin() + len;
 
-    if ( !result )
-    {
-        // without seconds?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%H:%M"));
+            return time.c_str() + len;
+        }
     }
 
-    if ( !result )
+    // try all time formats we may think about in the order from longest to
+    // shortest
+    static const char *timeFormats[] =
     {
-        // 12hour with AM/PM but without seconds?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I:%M %p"));
-    }
+        "%I:%M:%S %p",  // 12hour with AM/PM
+        "%H:%M:%S",     // could be the same or 24 hour one so try it too
+        "%I:%M %p",     // 12hour with AM/PM but without seconds
+        "%H:%M:%S",     // and a possibly 24 hour version without seconds
+        "%X",           // possibly something from above or maybe something
+                        // completely different -- try it last
 
-    if ( !result )
-    {
-        // just the hour?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%H"));
-    }
+        // TODO: parse timezones
+    };
 
-    if ( !result )
+    for ( size_t nFmt = 0; nFmt < WXSIZEOF(timeFormats); nFmt++ )
     {
-        // just the hour and AM/PM?
-        result = ParseFormat(time, _T("%I %p"));
+        const char *result = ParseFormat(time, timeFormats[nFmt], end);
+        if ( result )
+            return result;
     }
 
-    // TODO: parse timezones
-
-    return result;
+    return NULL;
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -3326,10 +4219,38 @@ bool wxDateTime::IsWorkDay(Country WXUNUSED(country)) const
     return !wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::IsHoliday(*this);
 }
 
+// ============================================================================
+// wxDateSpan
+// ============================================================================
+
+wxDateSpan WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator*(int n, const wxDateSpan& ds)
+{
+    wxDateSpan ds1(ds);
+    return ds1.Multiply(n);
+}
+
 // ============================================================================
 // wxTimeSpan
 // ============================================================================
 
+wxTimeSpan WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator*(int n, const wxTimeSpan& ts)
+{
+    return wxTimeSpan(ts).Multiply(n);
+}
+
+// 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
 //
@@ -3346,67 +4267,162 @@ bool wxDateTime::IsWorkDay(Country WXUNUSED(country)) const
 // And, to be better than MFC :-), we also have
 //  %E          number of wEeks
 //  %l          milliseconds (000 - 999)
-wxString wxTimeSpan::Format(const wxChar *format) const
+wxString wxTimeSpan::Format(const wxString& format) const
 {
-    wxCHECK_MSG( format, _T(""), _T("NULL format in wxTimeSpan::Format") );
+    wxCHECK_MSG( !format.empty(), wxEmptyString,
+                 _T("NULL format in wxTimeSpan::Format") );
 
     wxString str;
-    str.Alloc(wxStrlen(format));
+    str.Alloc(format.length());
+
+    // 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 ( wxString::const_iterator pch = format.begin(); pch != format.end(); ++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++;
+            // the number of digits for the format string, 0 if unused
+            unsigned digits = 0;
+
+            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;
 
-                case 'D':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%d"), GetDays());
+                    // skip the part below switch
+                    continue;
+
+                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 )
+                    {
+                        if ( n < 0 )
+                        {
+                            // the sign has already been taken into account
+                            // when outputting the biggest part
+                            n = -n;
+                        }
+
+                        n %= HOURS_PER_DAY;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        partBiggest = Part_Hour;
+                    }
+
+                    digits = 2;
                     break;
 
-                case 'l':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%03ld"), GetMilliseconds().ToLong());
+                case _T('l'):
+                    n = GetMilliseconds().ToLong();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_MSec )
+                    {
+                        if ( n < 0 )
+                            n = -n;
+
+                        n %= 1000;
+                    }
+                    //else: no need to reset partBiggest to Part_MSec, it is
+                    //      the least significant one anyhow
+
+                    digits = 3;
                     break;
 
-                case 'M':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%02d"), GetMinutes());
+                case _T('M'):
+                    n = GetMinutes();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_Min )
+                    {
+                        if ( n < 0 )
+                            n = -n;
+
+                        n %= MIN_PER_HOUR;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        partBiggest = Part_Min;
+                    }
+
+                    digits = 2;
                     break;
 
-                case 'S':
-                    tmp.Printf(_T("%02ld"), GetSeconds().ToLong());
+                case _T('S'):
+                    n = GetSeconds().ToLong();
+                    if ( partBiggest < Part_Sec )
+                    {
+                        if ( n < 0 )
+                            n = -n;
+
+                        n %= SEC_PER_MIN;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        partBiggest = Part_Sec;
+                    }
+
+                    digits = 2;
                     break;
             }
 
-            if ( !!tmp )
+            if ( digits )
             {
-                str += tmp;
+                // negative numbers need one extra position for '-' display
+                if ( n < 0 )
+                    digits++;
 
-                // skip str += ch below
-                continue;
+                fmtPrefix << _T("0") << digits;
             }
-        }
 
-        str += ch;
+            str += wxString::Format(fmtPrefix + _T("ld"), n);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // normal character, just copy
+            str += ch;
+        }
     }
 
     return str;
@@ -3438,16 +4454,16 @@ wxHolidayAuthoritiesArray wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ms_authorities;
 /* static */
 bool wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::IsHoliday(const wxDateTime& dt)
 {
-    size_t count = ms_authorities.GetCount();
+    size_t count = ms_authorities.size();
     for ( size_t n = 0; n < count; n++ )
     {
         if ( ms_authorities[n]->DoIsHoliday(dt) )
         {
-            return TRUE;
+            return true;
         }
     }
 
-    return FALSE;
+    return false;
 }
 
 /* static */
@@ -3458,19 +4474,19 @@ wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::GetHolidaysInRange(const wxDateTime& dtStart,
 {
     wxDateTimeArray hol;
 
-    holidays.Empty();
+    holidays.Clear();
 
-    size_t count = ms_authorities.GetCount();
-    for ( size_t n = 0; n < count; n++ )
+    const size_t countAuth = ms_authorities.size();
+    for ( size_t nAuth = 0; nAuth < countAuth; nAuth++ )
     {
-        ms_authorities[n]->DoGetHolidaysInRange(dtStart, dtEnd, hol);
+        ms_authorities[nAuth]->DoGetHolidaysInRange(dtStart, dtEnd, hol);
 
         WX_APPEND_ARRAY(holidays, hol);
     }
 
     holidays.Sort(wxDateTimeCompareFunc);
 
-    return holidays.GetCount();
+    return holidays.size();
 }
 
 /* static */
@@ -3482,7 +4498,12 @@ void wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::ClearAllAuthorities()
 /* static */
 void wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::AddAuthority(wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority *auth)
 {
-    ms_authorities.Add(auth);
+    ms_authorities.push_back(auth);
+}
+
+wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority::~wxDateTimeHolidayAuthority()
+{
+    // required here for Darwin
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -3529,3 +4550,73 @@ size_t wxDateTimeWorkDays::DoGetHolidaysInRange(const wxDateTime& dtStart,
 
     return holidays.GetCount();
 }
+
+// ============================================================================
+// other helper functions
+// ============================================================================
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// iteration helpers: can be used to write a for loop over enum variable like
+// this:
+//  for ( m = wxDateTime::Jan; m < wxDateTime::Inv_Month; wxNextMonth(m) )
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE void wxNextMonth(wxDateTime::Month& m)
+{
+    wxASSERT_MSG( m < wxDateTime::Inv_Month, _T("invalid month") );
+
+    // no wrapping or the for loop above would never end!
+    m = (wxDateTime::Month)(m + 1);
+}
+
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE void wxPrevMonth(wxDateTime::Month& m)
+{
+    wxASSERT_MSG( m < wxDateTime::Inv_Month, _T("invalid month") );
+
+    m = m == wxDateTime::Jan ? wxDateTime::Inv_Month
+                             : (wxDateTime::Month)(m - 1);
+}
+
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE void wxNextWDay(wxDateTime::WeekDay& wd)
+{
+    wxASSERT_MSG( wd < wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, _T("invalid week day") );
+
+    // no wrapping or the for loop above would never end!
+    wd = (wxDateTime::WeekDay)(wd + 1);
+}
+
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE void wxPrevWDay(wxDateTime::WeekDay& wd)
+{
+    wxASSERT_MSG( wd < wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, _T("invalid week day") );
+
+    wd = wd == wxDateTime::Sun ? wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay
+                               : (wxDateTime::WeekDay)(wd - 1);
+}
+
+#ifdef __WXMSW__
+
+wxDateTime& wxDateTime::SetFromMSWSysTime(const SYSTEMTIME& st)
+{
+    return Set(st.wDay,
+            wx_static_cast(wxDateTime::Month, wxDateTime::Jan + st.wMonth - 1),
+            st.wYear,
+            0, 0, 0);
+}
+
+void wxDateTime::GetAsMSWSysTime(SYSTEMTIME* st) const
+{
+    const wxDateTime::Tm tm(GetTm());
+
+    st->wYear = (WXWORD)tm.year;
+    st->wMonth = (WXWORD)(tm.mon - wxDateTime::Jan + 1);
+    st->wDay = tm.mday;
+
+    st->wDayOfWeek =
+    st->wHour =
+    st->wMinute =
+    st->wSecond =
+    st->wMilliseconds = 0;
+}
+#endif // __WXMSW__
+
+#endif // wxUSE_DATETIME