Changes to allow past date selection, plus various other improvements/clean up#2

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atironati wants to merge 4 commits intojasisk:setDateTimefrom

atironati:alex-past-date-selection-changes

Commits on Feb 1, 2013

changes to allow past date selection, plus various other improvements and clean up
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Commits on Feb 5, 2013

switch to using Utils.pad, fix jingings
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Commits on Feb 6, 2013