diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index a2988366..89b60fd1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2314,6 +2314,7 @@ Tobias Bratfisch <tobias@reel-multimedia.com>
  for optimizing cNitFilter::Process()
  for reducing the number of time(NULL) calls in vdr.c's main loop to a single call
  for improving efficiency of cEIT::cEIT()
+ for fixing the use of time_t in cEIT::cEIT()
 
 Bruno Roussel <bruno.roussel@free.fr>
  for translating OSD texts to the French language
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 427841ae..0425e968 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6094,3 +6094,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added a note to cTsToPes::GetPes() about having to call it repeatedly, once
   it has returned a non-NULL value.
 - Added MPEG 1 handling to remux.c (thanks to Ales Jurik).
+- Fixed use of time_t in cEIT::cEIT() (thanks to Tobias Bratfisch).
diff --git a/eit.c b/eit.c
index b78c1179..8e8dd490 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 2.3 2009/04/11 10:03:24 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: eit.c 2.4 2009/05/10 14:47:31 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "eit.h"
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ cEIT::cEIT(cSchedules *Schedules, int Source, u_char Tid, const u_char *Data, bo
   SI::EIT::Event SiEitEvent;
   for (SI::Loop::Iterator it; eventLoop.getNext(SiEitEvent, it); ) {
       bool ExternalData = false;
-      int StartTime = SiEitEvent.getStartTime();
+      time_t StartTime = SiEitEvent.getStartTime();
       int Duration = SiEitEvent.getDuration();
       // Drop bogus events - but keep NVOD reference events, where all bits of the start time field are set to 1, resulting in a negative number.
       if (StartTime == 0 || StartTime > 0 && Duration == 0)