diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 46a8eb42..6cfc11c0 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2919,6 +2919,7 @@ Henning Heinold <heinold@inf.fu-berlin.de>
 
 Dominik Strasser <dominik@die-strassers.de>
  for making a cRemote be removed from the Remotes list in case its initialization failed
+ for reporting a possible access to uninitialized data in cEIT::cEIT()
 
 Joerg Bornkessel <hd_brummy@gentoo.org>
  for adding LDFLAGS to the linker calls in the Makefiles
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 789ead0c..68733017 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8051,3 +8051,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - In the "Select folder" menu pressing Ok now selects the folder, even if this is a
   folder that contains sub folders (marked with "..."). To open such a folder you
   can press the Red key.
+- Fixed a possible access to uninitialized data in cEIT::cEIT() (reported by Dominik
+  Strasser).
diff --git a/eit.c b/eit.c
index e5fa3014..d5ca7dad 100644
--- a/eit.c
+++ b/eit.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@web.de> and Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>.
  * Adapted to 'libsi' for VDR 1.3.0 by Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de>.
  *
- * $Id: eit.c 3.2 2013/10/12 11:10:11 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: eit.c 3.3 2013/11/03 13:55:00 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "eit.h"
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ cEIT::cEIT(cSchedules *Schedules, int Source, u_char Tid, const u_char *Data, bo
   bool Modified = false;
   time_t SegmentStart = 0;
   time_t SegmentEnd = 0;
-  struct tm tm_r;
-  struct tm t = *localtime_r(&Now, &tm_r); // this initializes the time zone in 't'
+  struct tm t = { 0 };
+  localtime_r(&Now, &t); // this initializes the time zone in 't'
 
   SI::EIT::Event SiEitEvent;
   for (SI::Loop::Iterator it; eventLoop.getNext(SiEitEvent, it); ) {