diff --git a/CHANGELOG.markdown b/CHANGELOG.markdown
index a9d73d3..95a5b09 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.markdown
+++ b/CHANGELOG.markdown
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 ## 0.4.0 (in-development)
 
+* Remove dependency on a running server for tracking application state.
+  Instead, parsers and formats are registered to the application environment
+  vars (e.g. `application:get_env`), and timezones are registered to the
+  application environment or the process dictionary. A side-effect of this
+  change is that you can no longer query another process's timezone. 
 * Add basic date arithmetic (e.g. `qdate:add_hours/[1-2]`, etc).
 * Add `get_formats()` and `get_parsers()` to see list of registered formats and
   parsers.
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 9163452..4e05650 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -675,12 +675,9 @@ See [CHANGELOG.markdown](https://github.com/choptastic/qdate/blob/master/CHANGEL
 
 ## TODO
 
-+ Strip the reliance on having to start qdate. It should just use the
-  application environment for storing formats and parsers.
 + Make `qdate` backend-agnostic (allow specifying either ec_date or dh_date as
   the backend)
 + Add `-spec` and `-type` info for dialyzer
-+ Add date and time arithmetic.
 + Provide a sample qdate.config for users to see
 + Research the viability of [ezic](https://github.com/drfloob/ezic) for a
   timezone backend replacement for `erlang_localtime`.
diff --git a/src/qdate_srv.erl b/src/qdate_srv.erl
index 431acde..d8c1236 100644
--- a/src/qdate_srv.erl
+++ b/src/qdate_srv.erl
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 
 -module(qdate_srv).
 
--define(SRV, ?MODULE).
-
 -export([
     set_timezone/1,
     set_timezone/2,