diff --git a/src/librssguard/3rd-party/qdatetimeparser/qdatetimeparser.cpp b/src/librssguard/3rd-party/qdatetimeparser/qdatetimeparser.cpp
index aaaa83f5a..f9a966e31 100644
--- a/src/librssguard/3rd-party/qdatetimeparser/qdatetimeparser.cpp
+++ b/src/librssguard/3rd-party/qdatetimeparser/qdatetimeparser.cpp
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
 #include "3rd-party/qdatetimeparser/qdatetimeparser.h"
 
-#include "private/qstringiterator_p.h"
-#include "private/qtenvironmentvariables_p.h"
+// #include "private/qstringiterator_p.h"
+// #include "private/qtenvironmentvariables_p.h"
 
 #include <QDebug>
 #include <QTimeZone>
@@ -354,6 +354,184 @@ int QDateTimeParser::sectionPos(const SectionNode& sn) const {
   Helper function for parseSection.
 */
 
+class QStringIterator {
+    QString::const_iterator i, pos, e;
+    static_assert((std::is_same<QString::const_iterator, const QChar*>::value));
+    static bool less(const QChar* lhs, const QChar* rhs) noexcept {
+      return std::less{}(lhs, rhs);
+    }
+
+  public:
+    explicit QStringIterator(QStringView string, qsizetype idx = 0)
+      : i(string.begin()), pos(i + idx), e(string.end()) {}
+
+    inline explicit QStringIterator(const QChar* begin, const QChar* end) : i(begin), pos(begin), e(end) {}
+
+    explicit QStringIterator(const QChar* begin, qsizetype idx, const QChar* end)
+      : i(begin), pos(begin + idx), e(end) {}
+
+    inline QString::const_iterator position() const {
+      return pos;
+    }
+
+    qsizetype index() const {
+      return pos - i;
+    }
+
+    inline void setPosition(QString::const_iterator position) {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(!less(position, i) && !less(e, position), Q_FUNC_INFO, "position out of bounds");
+      pos = position;
+    }
+
+    // forward iteration
+
+    inline bool hasNext() const {
+      return less(pos, e);
+    }
+
+    inline void advance() {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasNext(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a next item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY((pos++)->isHighSurrogate())) {
+        if (Q_LIKELY(pos != e && pos->isLowSurrogate()))
+          ++pos;
+      }
+    }
+
+    inline void advanceUnchecked() {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasNext(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a next item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY((pos++)->isHighSurrogate())) {
+        Q_ASSERT(hasNext() && pos->isLowSurrogate());
+        ++pos;
+      }
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t peekNextUnchecked() const {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasNext(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a next item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(pos->isHighSurrogate())) {
+        Q_ASSERT(less(pos + 1, e) && pos[1].isLowSurrogate());
+        return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(pos[0], pos[1]);
+      }
+
+      return pos->unicode();
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t peekNext(char32_t invalidAs = QChar::ReplacementCharacter) const {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasNext(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a next item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(pos->isSurrogate())) {
+        if (Q_LIKELY(pos->isHighSurrogate())) {
+          const QChar* low = pos + 1;
+          if (Q_LIKELY(low != e && low->isLowSurrogate()))
+            return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(*pos, *low);
+        }
+        return invalidAs;
+      }
+
+      return pos->unicode();
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t nextUnchecked() {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasNext(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a next item");
+
+      const QChar cur = *pos++;
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(cur.isHighSurrogate())) {
+        Q_ASSERT(hasNext() && pos->isLowSurrogate());
+        return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(cur, *pos++);
+      }
+      return cur.unicode();
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t next(char32_t invalidAs = QChar::ReplacementCharacter) {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasNext(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a next item");
+
+      const QChar uc = *pos++;
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(uc.isSurrogate())) {
+        if (Q_LIKELY(uc.isHighSurrogate() && hasNext() && pos->isLowSurrogate()))
+          return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(uc, *pos++);
+        return invalidAs;
+      }
+
+      return uc.unicode();
+    }
+
+    // backwards iteration
+
+    inline bool hasPrevious() const {
+      return less(i, pos);
+    }
+
+    inline void recede() {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasPrevious(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a previous item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY((--pos)->isLowSurrogate())) {
+        const QChar* high = pos - 1;
+        if (Q_LIKELY(high != i - 1 && high->isHighSurrogate()))
+          --pos;
+      }
+    }
+
+    inline void recedeUnchecked() {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasPrevious(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a previous item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY((--pos)->isLowSurrogate())) {
+        Q_ASSERT(hasPrevious() && pos[-1].isHighSurrogate());
+        --pos;
+      }
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t peekPreviousUnchecked() const {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasPrevious(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a previous item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(pos[-1].isLowSurrogate())) {
+        Q_ASSERT(less(i + 1, pos) && pos[-2].isHighSurrogate());
+        return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(pos[-2], pos[-1]);
+      }
+      return pos[-1].unicode();
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t peekPrevious(char32_t invalidAs = QChar::ReplacementCharacter) const {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasPrevious(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a previous item");
+
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(pos[-1].isSurrogate())) {
+        if (Q_LIKELY(pos[-1].isLowSurrogate())) {
+          const QChar* high = pos - 2;
+          if (Q_LIKELY(high != i - 1 && high->isHighSurrogate()))
+            return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(*high, pos[-1]);
+        }
+        return invalidAs;
+      }
+
+      return pos[-1].unicode();
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t previousUnchecked() {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasPrevious(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a previous item");
+
+      const QChar cur = *--pos;
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(cur.isLowSurrogate())) {
+        Q_ASSERT(hasPrevious() && pos[-1].isHighSurrogate());
+        return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(*--pos, cur);
+      }
+      return cur.unicode();
+    }
+
+    inline char32_t previous(char32_t invalidAs = QChar::ReplacementCharacter) {
+      Q_ASSERT_X(hasPrevious(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "iterator hasn't a previous item");
+
+      const QChar uc = *--pos;
+      if (Q_UNLIKELY(uc.isSurrogate())) {
+        if (Q_LIKELY(uc.isLowSurrogate() && hasPrevious() && pos[-1].isHighSurrogate()))
+          return QChar::surrogateToUcs4(*--pos, uc);
+        return invalidAs;
+      }
+
+      return uc.unicode();
+    }
+};
+
 static qsizetype digitCount(QStringView str) {
   qsizetype digits = 0;
   for (QStringIterator it(str); it.hasNext();) {
@@ -1187,12 +1365,14 @@ static QTime actualTime(QDateTimeParser::Sections known,
   \internal
 */
 static int startsWithLocalTimeZone(QStringView name, const QDateTime& when) {
+  /*
   // On MS-Win, at least when system zone is UTC, the tzname[]s may be empty.
   for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
     const QString zone(qTzName(i));
     if (!zone.isEmpty() && name.startsWith(zone))
       return zone.size();
   }
+  */
   // Mimic what QLocale::toString() would have used, to ensure round-trips work:
   const QString local = QDateTime(when.date(), when.time()).timeZoneAbbreviation();
   if (name.startsWith(local))
diff --git a/src/librssguard/miscellaneous/textfactory.cpp b/src/librssguard/miscellaneous/textfactory.cpp
index 4e88a8f8e..9b3e623cf 100644
--- a/src/librssguard/miscellaneous/textfactory.cpp
+++ b/src/librssguard/miscellaneous/textfactory.cpp
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ QDateTime TextFactory::parseDateTime(const QString& date_time, QString* used_dt_
 
   QDateTime dt;
   QTime time_zone_offset;
-  const QLocale locale(QLocale::Language::C);
+  // const QLocale locale(QLocale::Language::C);
   bool positive_time_zone_offset = false;
   static QStringList date_patterns = dateTimePatterns();
   QStringList timezone_offset_patterns;
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ QDateTime TextFactory::parseDateTime(const QString& date_time, QString* used_dt_
     dt = locale.toDateTime(input_date_chopped, pattern);
 #endif
 */
+    // NOTE: We use QDateTimeParser class extracted/modified from Qt sources to allow
+    // matching only prefixes of input date strings.
+    //
+    // Built-in parser only matches if the WHOLE input strings matches.
     QDateTimeParser par(QMetaType::QDateTime, QDateTimeParser::FromString, QCalendar());
     par.setDefaultLocale(QLocale::c());
     par.parseFormat(pattern);