diff --git a/S3.php b/S3.php
index 6f1e0499..3ee2cf0d 100644
--- a/S3.php
+++ b/S3.php
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ class S3
 	private static $__signingKeyPairId = null; // AWS Key Pair ID
 	private static $__signingKeyResource = false; // Key resource, freeSigningKey() must be called to clear it from memory
 
+	// Used by self::__utcstrtotime()
+	private static $__timezone = null;
 
 	/**
 	* Constructor - if you're not using the class statically
@@ -79,6 +81,10 @@ public function __construct($accessKey = null, $secretKey = null, $useSSL = fals
 			self::setAuth($accessKey, $secretKey);
 		self::$useSSL = $useSSL;
 		self::$endpoint = $endpoint;
+
+		/* Create the dummy UTC timezone object used by self::__utcstrtotime() */
+		if (self::$__timezone === null)
+			self::$__timezone = new DateTimeZone('UTC');
 	}
 
 
@@ -253,7 +259,7 @@ public static function listBuckets($detailed = false)
 			$results['buckets'] = array();
 			foreach ($rest->body->Buckets->Bucket as $b)
 				$results['buckets'][] = array(
-					'name' => (string)$b->Name, 'time' => strtotime((string)$b->CreationDate)
+					'name' => (string)$b->Name, 'time' => self::__utcstrtotime((string)$b->CreationDate)
 				);
 		} else
 			foreach ($rest->body->Buckets->Bucket as $b) $results[] = (string)$b->Name;
@@ -301,7 +307,7 @@ public static function getBucket($bucket, $prefix = null, $marker = null, $maxKe
 		{
 			$results[(string)$c->Key] = array(
 				'name' => (string)$c->Key,
-				'time' => strtotime((string)$c->LastModified),
+				'time' => self::__utcstrtotime((string)$c->LastModified),
 				'size' => (int)$c->Size,
 				'hash' => substr((string)$c->ETag, 1, -1)
 			);
@@ -334,7 +340,7 @@ public static function getBucket($bucket, $prefix = null, $marker = null, $maxKe
 			{
 				$results[(string)$c->Key] = array(
 					'name' => (string)$c->Key,
-					'time' => strtotime((string)$c->LastModified),
+					'time' => self::__utcstrtotime((string)$c->LastModified),
 					'size' => (int)$c->Size,
 					'hash' => substr((string)$c->ETag, 1, -1)
 				);
@@ -667,7 +673,7 @@ public static function copyObject($srcBucket, $srcUri, $bucket, $uri, $acl = sel
 			return false;
 		}
 		return isset($rest->body->LastModified, $rest->body->ETag) ? array(
-			'time' => strtotime((string)$rest->body->LastModified),
+			'time' => self::__utcstrtotime((string)$rest->body->LastModified),
 			'hash' => substr((string)$rest->body->ETag, 1, -1)
 		) : false;
 	}
@@ -1470,7 +1476,7 @@ private static function __parseCloudFrontDistributionConfig(&$node)
 		{
 			$dist['id'] = (string)$node->Id;
 			$dist['status'] = (string)$node->Status;
-			$dist['time'] = strtotime((string)$node->LastModifiedTime);
+			$dist['time'] = self::__utcstrtotime((string)$node->LastModifiedTime);
 			$dist['domain'] = (string)$node->DomainName;
 		}
 
@@ -1624,6 +1630,23 @@ private static function __getHash($string)
 		(str_repeat(chr(0x36), 64))) . $string)))));
 	}
 
+
+	/**
+	* Convert a UTC time string to a timestamp
+	*
+	* This function avoids PHP's silly irrelevant notices about
+	* setting the timezone.
+	*
+	* @internal Used wherever we are forced to parse time.
+	* @param string $time The UTC time to parse.
+	* @return int The unix timestamp for $time.
+	*/
+	private static function __utcstrtotime($time)
+	{
+		$t = new DateTime($time, self::$__timezone);
+		return $t->getTimestamp();
+	}
+
 }
 
 final class S3Request
@@ -1813,6 +1836,7 @@ public function getResponse()
         }
 
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
+		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILETIME, true);
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false);
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, array(&$this, '__responseWriteCallback'));
@@ -1851,7 +1875,12 @@ public function getResponse()
 
 		// Execute, grab errors
 		if (curl_exec($curl))
+		{
 			$this->response->code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+			$last_modified = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_FILETIME);
+			if ($last_modified > -1)
+				$this->response->headers['time'] = $last_modified;
+		}
 		else
 			$this->response->error = array(
 				'code' => curl_errno($curl),
@@ -1939,9 +1968,7 @@ private function __responseHeaderCallback(&$curl, &$data)
 			$data = trim($data);
 			if (strpos($data, ': ') === false) return $strlen;
 			list($header, $value) = explode(': ', $data, 2);
-			if ($header == 'Last-Modified')
-				$this->response->headers['time'] = strtotime($value);
-			elseif ($header == 'Content-Length')
+			if ($header == 'Content-Length')
 				$this->response->headers['size'] = (int)$value;
 			elseif ($header == 'Content-Type')
 				$this->response->headers['type'] = $value;