diff --git a/src/common/datetime.cpp b/src/common/datetime.cpp
index 16ccbc4094..1547b4a14e 100644
--- a/src/common/datetime.cpp
+++ b/src/common/datetime.cpp
@@ -1273,6 +1273,17 @@ wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetBeginDST(int year, Country country)
                             wxFAIL_MSG( _T("no first Sunday in April?") );
                         }
                     }
+                    else if ( year > 2006 )
+                    // Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).
+                    // Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the
+                    // second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November
+                    {
+                        if ( !dt.SetToWeekDay(Sun, 2, Mar, year) )
+                        {
+                            // weird...
+                            wxFAIL_MSG( _T("no second Sunday in March?") );
+                        }
+                    }
                     else
                     {
                         if ( !dt.SetToWeekDay(Sun, 1, Apr, year) )
@@ -1349,21 +1360,36 @@ wxDateTime wxDateTime::GetEndDST(int year, Country country)
                     dt.Set(30, Sep, year);
                     break;
 
-                default:
-                    // DST ends at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October
-                    if ( !dt.SetToLastWeekDay(Sun, Oct, year) )
+                default: // default for switch (year)
+                    if ( year > 2006 )
+                      // Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).
+                      // Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the
+                      // second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November
                     {
-                        // weirder and weirder...
-                        wxFAIL_MSG( _T("no last Sunday in October?") );
+                        if ( !dt.SetToWeekDay(Sun, 1, Nov, year) )
+                        {
+                            // weird...
+                            wxFAIL_MSG( _T("no first Sunday in November?") );
+                        }
+                    }
+                    else
+                     // pre-2007
+                     // DST ends at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October
+                    {
+                        if ( !dt.SetToLastWeekDay(Sun, Oct, year) )
+                        {
+                            // weirder and weirder...
+                            wxFAIL_MSG( _T("no last Sunday in October?") );
+                        }
                     }
 
                     dt += wxTimeSpan::Hours(2);
 
-                    // TODO what about timezone??
+            // TODO: what about timezone??
             }
             break;
 
-        default:
+        default: // default for switch (country)
             // assume October 26th as the end of the DST - totally bogus too
             dt.Set(26, Oct, year);
     }
diff --git a/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp b/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp
index 70dd191b99..745a8d8d36 100644
--- a/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp
+++ b/tests/datetime/datetimetest.cpp
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ for n in range(20):
 void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeDST()
 {
     // taken from http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html
-    static const Date datesDST[2][2004 - 1900 + 1] =
+    static const Date datesDST[2][2009 - 1990 + 1] =
     {
         {
             { 1, wxDateTime::Apr, 1990, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
@@ -554,6 +554,11 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeDST()
             { 7, wxDateTime::Apr, 2002, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
             { 6, wxDateTime::Apr, 2003, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
             { 4, wxDateTime::Apr, 2004, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            { 3, wxDateTime::Apr, 2005, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            { 2, wxDateTime::Apr, 2006, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            {11, wxDateTime::Mar, 2007, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            { 9, wxDateTime::Mar, 2008, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            { 8, wxDateTime::Mar, 2009, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
         },
         {
             { 28, wxDateTime::Oct, 1990, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
@@ -571,20 +576,26 @@ void DateTimeTestCase::TestTimeDST()
             { 27, wxDateTime::Oct, 2002, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
             { 26, wxDateTime::Oct, 2003, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
             { 31, wxDateTime::Oct, 2004, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            { 30, wxDateTime::Oct, 2005, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            { 29, wxDateTime::Oct, 2006, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            {  4, wxDateTime::Nov, 2007, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            {  2, wxDateTime::Nov, 2008, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+            {  1, wxDateTime::Nov, 2009, 0, 0, 0, 0.0, wxDateTime::Inv_WeekDay, 0 },
+
         }
     };
 
-    for ( int year = 1990; year < 2005; year++ )
+    for ( size_t n = 0; n < WXSIZEOF(datesDST[0]); n++ )
     {
+        const int year = 1990 + n;
         wxDateTime dtBegin = wxDateTime::GetBeginDST(year, wxDateTime::USA),
                    dtEnd = wxDateTime::GetEndDST(year, wxDateTime::USA);
 
-        size_t n = year - 1990;
         const Date& dBegin = datesDST[0][n];
         const Date& dEnd = datesDST[1][n];
 
-        CPPUNIT_ASSERT( dBegin.SameDay(dtBegin.GetTm()) );
-        CPPUNIT_ASSERT( dEnd.SameDay(dtEnd.GetTm()) );
+        CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL( dBegin.DT().FormatDate(), dtBegin.FormatDate() );
+        CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL( dEnd.DT().FormatDate(), dtEnd.FormatDate() );
     }
 }