diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 1163d46776..286f5b1363 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ wxMSW:
 - Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
 - Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
 - Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
+- Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
 
 wxMSW/CE:
 
diff --git a/include/wx/datetime.h b/include/wx/datetime.h
index 0c1edb6856..8fd9bd4ace 100644
--- a/include/wx/datetime.h
+++ b/include/wx/datetime.h
@@ -1100,13 +1100,8 @@ public:
     // another one to get the current time broken down
     static struct tm *GetTmNow()
     {
-#ifdef __WXWINCE__
         static struct tm l_CurrentTime;
         return GetTmNow(&l_CurrentTime);
-#else
-        time_t t = GetTimeNow();
-        return localtime(&t);
-#endif
     }
 
     // get current time using thread-safe function