diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 06f07b217..9444de7cb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ ikiwiki (3.20110716) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * search: Fix encoding bug in calculation of maximum term size.
   * inline: When indexing internal pages for searching, use the url of
     the inlining page.
+  * Fix comments testsuite to not rely on Date::Parse's ability to
+    parse the date Columbus discovered America. Closes: #640350
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:22:52 -0400
 
diff --git a/t/comments.t b/t/comments.t
index 4721d7a9c..da2148b6b 100755
--- a/t/comments.t
+++ b/t/comments.t
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ writefile("post/comment_3._comment", "t/tmp/in", $comment);
 
 $comment = <<EOF;
 [[!comment username="christopher"
-  date="1492-10-12T07:00:00Z"
+  date="1969-02-12T07:00:00Z"
   content="I explored"]]
 EOF
 writefile("post/comment_2._comment", "t/tmp/in", $comment);
 
 $comment = <<EOF;
 [[!comment username="william"
-  date="1066-10-14T12:00:00Z"
+  date="1969-01-14T12:00:00Z"
   content="I conquered"]]
 EOF
 writefile("post/comment_1._comment", "t/tmp/in", $comment);