diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 4f0381aa..e4b6370d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -781,3 +781,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - New command line option '-r' to define a command that gets called before and
   after each recording (see INSTALL for details).
 - Implemented a check to see whether the system time is running linearly.
+- Writing the current time (as seen by VDR) into the log file when starting
+  a timer recording (this may help debugging cases where timers don't start
+  at the expected time).
diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
index e92dc426..e08c590a 100644
--- a/vdr.c
+++ b/vdr.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 1.76 2001/09/23 09:58:36 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 1.77 2001/09/23 10:11:07 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
            cRecordControls::Process(Now);
            cTimer *Timer = Timers.GetMatch(Now);
            if (Timer) {
+              dsyslog(LOG_INFO, "system time seen is %s", ctime(&Now));
               if (!cRecordControls::Start(Timer))
                  Timer->SetPending(true);
               }