diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 503e4190..10e4ae6c 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   an early state and may still cause some problems, but it appears to work nice
   already.
 
-2001-01-03: Version 0.70
+2001-01-13: Version 0.70
 
 - VDR now requires driver version 0.80 or higher.
 - Recordings are now saved in PES mode. Note that you now need to install the
@@ -334,3 +334,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added Italian language texts (thanks to Alberto Carraro).
 - Fixed starting a replay session when the program is currently in "transfer
   mode".
+- Fixed setting/modifying timers via SVDRP with empty summary fields.
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index b5134ae4..7da5b1b4 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.c 1.35 2000/12/01 16:53:48 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.c 1.36 2001/01/13 11:30:08 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "config.h"
@@ -435,9 +435,11 @@ bool cTimer::Parse(const char *s)
   //XXX to hear about that!
   char *s2 = NULL;
   int l2 = strlen(s);
-  if (s[l2 - 2] == ':') { // note that 's' has a trailing '\n'
-     s2 = (char *)malloc(l2 + 2);
-     strcat(strn0cpy(s2, s, l2), " \n");
+  while (l2 > 0 && isspace(s[l2 - 1]))
+        l2--;
+  if (s[l2 - 1] == ':') {
+     s2 = (char *)malloc(l2 + 3);
+     strcat(strn0cpy(s2, s, l2 + 1), " \n");
      s = s2;
      }
   if (8 <= sscanf(s, "%d:%d:%a[^:]:%d:%d:%d:%d:%a[^:\n]:%a[^\n]", &active, &channel, &buffer1, &start, &stop, &priority, &lifetime, &buffer2, &summary)) {