diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 5c32249fc8..b36de710f7 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ All:
 - fixed assert (and crash in debug) in wxFileConfigGroup::DeleteSubgroupByName
 - fix for deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
 - wxStopWatch::Start() didn't resume it contrary to the docs
+- accept '\r' as delimiter when parsing dates
 
 Unix (GUI):
 
diff --git a/src/common/datetime.cpp b/src/common/datetime.cpp
index 4c91d36c8b..977be2df05 100644
--- a/src/common/datetime.cpp
+++ b/src/common/datetime.cpp
@@ -3237,7 +3237,7 @@ const wxChar *wxDateTime::ParseDate(const wxChar *date)
 
     // tokenize the string
     size_t nPosCur = 0;
-    static const wxChar *dateDelimiters = _T(".,/-\t\n ");
+    static const wxChar *dateDelimiters = _T(".,/-\t\r\n ");
     wxStringTokenizer tok(p, dateDelimiters);
     while ( tok.HasMoreTokens() )
     {