Index: providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp
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--- providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp	(revision 15215)
+++ providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <QMap>
 #include <QString>
 #include <QTextCodec>
+#include <QDateTime>
 
 #include "qgsapplication.h"
 #include "qgsdataprovider.h"
@@ -391,9 +392,8 @@
       {
         case OFTInteger: varType = QVariant::Int; break;
         case OFTReal: varType = QVariant::Double; break;
-          // unsupported in OGR 1.3
-          //case OFTDateTime: varType = QVariant::DateTime; break;
 #if defined(GDAL_VERSION_NUM) && GDAL_VERSION_NUM >= 1400
+        case OFTDateTime: varType = QVariant::DateTime; break;
         case OFTString: varType = QVariant::String; break;
 #endif
         default: varType = QVariant::String; // other unsupported, leave it as a string
@@ -730,7 +730,14 @@
       case QVariant::String: value = QVariant( mEncoding->toUnicode( OGR_F_GetFieldAsString( ogrFet, attindex ) ) ); break;
       case QVariant::Int: value = QVariant( OGR_F_GetFieldAsInteger( ogrFet, attindex ) ); break;
       case QVariant::Double: value = QVariant( OGR_F_GetFieldAsDouble( ogrFet, attindex ) ); break;
-        //case QVariant::DateTime: value = QVariant(QDateTime::fromString(str)); break;
+#if defined(GDAL_VERSION_NUM) && GDAL_VERSION_NUM >= 1400
+      case QVariant::DateTime:
+	int year, month, day, hour, minute, second, tz;
+
+        OGR_F_GetFieldAsDateTime( ogrFet, attindex, &year, &month, &day, &hour, &minute, &second, &tz );
+        value = QVariant(QDateTime( QDate( year, month, day ), QTime( hour, minute, second )));
+        break;
+#endif
       default: assert( NULL && "unsupported field type" );
     }
   }