diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f7e2cbc59..5bc36c894 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-05-04  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+
+	* Source/NSDate.m: GSTimeNow() remove volatile typespec and move
+	initialisation of interval in the hope of fixing a problem with
+	float operations.  In any case, the code is tidier.
+
 2001-05-03  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.in: Don't use -lobjc with NeXT_RUNTIME. Check for -lm.
diff --git a/Source/NSDate.m b/Source/NSDate.m
index 3dc667bee..6c766bf80 100644
--- a/Source/NSDate.m
+++ b/Source/NSDate.m
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ NSTimeInterval
 GSTimeNow()
 {
 #if !defined(__MINGW__)
-  volatile NSTimeInterval interval;
+  NSTimeInterval interval;
   struct timeval tp;
 
-  interval = UNIX_REFERENCE_INTERVAL;
   gettimeofday (&tp, NULL);
+  interval = UNIX_REFERENCE_INTERVAL;
   interval += tp.tv_sec;
   interval += (double)tp.tv_usec / 1000000.0;
   return interval;