diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index c027b277..2bc10d7a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1474,3 +1474,6 @@ Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>
 
 Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@hut.fi>
  for making repeat keys be ignored when waiting for a keypress to cancel an operation
+
+Patrick Rother <krd-vdr@gulu.net>
+ for reporting a bug in defining timers that only differ in the day of week
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 250edf8d..0fe55bd7 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -3800,3 +3800,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed some typos in MANUAL (thanks to Ville Skyttä).
 - Fixed the default value for "Setup/EPG bugfix level" (thanks to Ville Skyttä for
   reporting this one).
+- Fixed defining timers that only differ in the day of week (thanks to Patrick
+  Rother for reporting this one).
diff --git a/timers.c b/timers.c
index c95d367e..ff51f109 100644
--- a/timers.c
+++ b/timers.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: timers.c 1.35 2005/09/04 10:53:21 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: timers.c 1.36 2005/09/09 15:22:33 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "timers.h"
@@ -519,7 +519,10 @@ cTimers::cTimers(void)
 cTimer *cTimers::GetTimer(cTimer *Timer)
 {
   for (cTimer *ti = First(); ti; ti = Next(ti)) {
-      if (ti->Channel() == Timer->Channel() && ti->Day() == Timer->Day() && ti->Start() == Timer->Start() && ti->Stop() == Timer->Stop())
+      if (ti->Channel() == Timer->Channel() &&
+          (ti->WeekDays() && ti->WeekDays() == Timer->WeekDays() || !ti->WeekDays() && ti->Day() == Timer->Day()) &&
+          ti->Start() == Timer->Start() &&
+          ti->Stop() == Timer->Stop())
          return ti;
       }
   return NULL;