diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a408bc3f4..3590b127b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 Daniel Stenberg (18 Oct 2009)
+- Ray Dassen provided a patch in Debian's bug tracker (bug number #551461)
+  that now makes curl_getdate(3) actually handles RFC 822 formatted dates that
+  use the "single letter military timezones".
+  http://www.rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/822/chapter5.html has the details.
+
 - Fixed memory leak in the SCP/SFTP code as it never freed the knownhosts
   data!
 
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index a9691ae97..9fdd91f47 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Michal Marek, Eric Wong, Guenter Knauf, Peter Sylvester, Daniel Johnson,
  Claes Jakobsson, Sven Anders, Chris Mumford, John P. McCaskey,
  Constantine Sapuntzakis, Michael Stillwell, Tom Mueller, Dan Fandrich,
- Kevin Baughman, John Dennis
+ Kevin Baughman, John Dennis, Ray Dassen
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/lib/parsedate.c b/lib/parsedate.c
index 2b704b52e..b846501c1 100644
--- a/lib/parsedate.c
+++ b/lib/parsedate.c
@@ -147,6 +147,36 @@ static const struct tzinfo tz[]= {
   {"NZST", -720},          /* New Zealand Standard */
   {"NZDT", -720 tDAYZONE}, /* New Zealand Daylight */
   {"IDLE", -720},          /* International Date Line East */
+  /* Next up: Military timezone names. RFC822 allowed these, but (as noted in
+     RFC 1123) had their signs wrong. Here we use the correct signs to match
+     actual military usage.
+   */
+  {"A",  +1 * 60},         /* Alpha */
+  {"B",  +2 * 60},         /* Bravo */
+  {"C",  +3 * 60},         /* Charlie */
+  {"D",  +4 * 60},         /* Delta */
+  {"E",  +5 * 60},         /* Echo */
+  {"F",  +6 * 60},         /* Foxtrot */
+  {"G",  +7 * 60},         /* Golf */
+  {"H",  +8 * 60},         /* Hotel */
+  {"I",  +9 * 60},         /* India */
+  /* "J", Juliet is not used as a timezone, to indicate the observer's local time */
+  {"K", +10 * 60},         /* Kilo */
+  {"L", +11 * 60},         /* Lima */
+  {"M", +12 * 60},         /* Mike */
+  {"N",  -1 * 60},         /* November */
+  {"O",  -2 * 60},         /* Oscar */
+  {"P",  -3 * 60},         /* Papa */
+  {"Q",  -4 * 60},         /* Quebec */
+  {"R",  -5 * 60},         /* Romeo */
+  {"S",  -6 * 60},         /* Sierra */
+  {"T",  -7 * 60},         /* Tango */
+  {"U",  -8 * 60},         /* Uniform */
+  {"V",  -9 * 60},         /* Victor */
+  {"W", -10 * 60},         /* Whiskey */
+  {"X", -11 * 60},         /* X-ray */
+  {"Y", -12 * 60},         /* Yankee */
+  {"Z", 0},                /* Zulu, zero meridian, a.k.a. UTC */
 };
 
 /* returns: