diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 63a969749..61602a575 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Mon Sep 13  6:45:00 1999  Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
 
-	Miscellaneous minor bugfixes plyus,
+	Miscellaneous minor bugfixes plus,
+	* Source/NSDate.m: Year 2001 bug fixed - had silly assertion in
+	generation of time interval since reference date for current time.
 	* Source/NSScanner.m: optimised (well, mostly).
 	* Headers/Foundation/NSScanner.h: update for optimisatio).
 
diff --git a/Source/NSDate.m b/Source/NSDate.m
index 1a5a0d01e..47c454ca2 100644
--- a/Source/NSDate.m
+++ b/Source/NSDate.m
@@ -118,10 +118,6 @@ GSTimeNow()
   gettimeofday (&tp, NULL);
   interval += tp.tv_sec;
   interval += (double)tp.tv_usec / 1000000.0;
-
-  /* There seems to be a problem with bad double arithmetic... */
-  NSCAssert(interval < 0, NSInternalInconsistencyException);
-
   return interval;
 #else
   SYSTEMTIME sys_time;