diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index e6d48f2285..5c14a81e9a 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ All:
 - Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
 - Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
 - Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
 
 All (GUI):
 
diff --git a/src/common/datetime.cpp b/src/common/datetime.cpp
index 109e3e712b..72cc38b626 100644
--- a/src/common/datetime.cpp
+++ b/src/common/datetime.cpp
@@ -2879,8 +2879,9 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date(const wxChar* date)
     min = (wxDateTime_t)(min + *p++ - _T('0'));
 
     wxDateTime_t sec = 0;
-    if ( *p++ == _T(':') )
+    if ( *p == _T(':') )
     {
+        p++;
         if ( !wxIsdigit(*p) )
         {
             return (wxChar *)NULL;