diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 11bc443a1..24e09284a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -50,4 +50,5 @@ Thanks to the following, who submitted detailed bug reports and excellent sugges
   Rich Mintz
   Seneca Cunningham
   Dirk Deimeke
+  Michelle Crane
 
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 866e20c17..bffad8d25 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
    for which there are pending tasks (thanks to Dirk Deimeke).
  + Fixed bug #414, that caused filtering on the presence or absence of tags
    containing Unicode characters to fail (thanks to Michal Josífko).
+ + Fixed bug #416, which caused sorting on a date to fail if the year was not
+   included in the dateformat (thanks to Michelle Crane).
 
 ------ old releases ------------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/Date.cpp b/src/Date.cpp
index b3a187fa9..83a168a42 100644
--- a/src/Date.cpp
+++ b/src/Date.cpp
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Date::Date (const std::string& mdy, const std::string& format /* = "m/d/Y" */)
 {
   int month  = 0;
   int day    = 0;
-  int year   = 0;
+  int year   = -1;   // So we can check later.
   int hour   = 0;
   int minute = 0;
   int second = 0;
@@ -332,6 +332,14 @@ Date::Date (const std::string& mdy, const std::string& format /* = "m/d/Y" */)
     }
   }
 
+  // Default the year to the current year, for formats that lack Y/y.
+  if (year == -1)
+  {
+    time_t now = time (NULL);
+    struct tm* default_year = localtime (&now);
+    year = default_year->tm_year + 1900;
+  }
+
   if (i < mdy.length ())
     throw std::string ("\"") + mdy + "\" is not a valid date in " + format + " format.";
 
diff --git a/src/tests/datesort.t b/src/tests/datesort.t
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..afe736400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tests/datesort.t
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#! /usr/bin/perl
+################################################################################
+## task - a command line task list manager.
+##
+## Copyright 2006 - 2010, Paul Beckingham.
+## All rights reserved.
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+## FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, write to the
+##
+##     Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+##     51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+##     Boston, MA
+##     02110-1301
+##     USA
+##
+################################################################################
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Test::More tests => 6;
+
+# Create the rc file.
+if (open my $fh, '>', 'datesort.rc')
+{
+  print $fh "data.location=.\n",
+            "dateformat=YMD\n",
+            "report.small_list.description=Small list\n",
+            "report.small_list.columns=due,description\n",
+            "report.small_list.labels=Due,Description\n",
+            "report.small_list.sort=due+\n",
+            "report.small_list.filter=status:pending\n",
+            "report.small_list.dateformat=MD\n";
+
+  close $fh;
+  ok (-r 'datesort.rc', 'Created datesort.rc');
+}
+
+qx{../task rc:datesort.rc add two   due:20100201};
+qx{../task rc:datesort.rc add one   due:20100101};
+qx{../task rc:datesort.rc add three due:20100301};
+
+my $output = qx{../task rc:datesort.rc small_list};
+like ($output, qr/one.+two.+three/ms, 'Sorting by due+ with format MD works');
+
+$output = qx{../task rc:datesort.rc rc.report.small_list.sort=due- small_list};
+like ($output, qr/three.+two.+one/ms, 'Sorting by due- with format MD works');
+
+# Cleanup.
+unlink 'pending.data';
+ok (!-r 'pending.data', 'Removed pending.data');
+
+unlink 'undo.data';
+ok (!-r 'undo.data', 'Removed undo.data');
+
+unlink 'datesort.rc';
+ok (!-r 'datesort.rc', 'Removed datesort.rc');
+
+exit 0;
+