diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 44b1ded..aa8a5e8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-07-04  David Wetzel  <dave@turbocat.de>
+	* EOAccess/EODatabaseContext.m
+	use memset in place of bzero
+	(as suggested by Tim Kack)
+	
 2010-07-04  David Wetzel  <dave@turbocat.de>
 	* EOAccess/EOModelGroup.m
 	add include
diff --git a/EOAccess/EODatabaseContext.m b/EOAccess/EODatabaseContext.m
index a339945..2c8dc3f 100644
--- a/EOAccess/EODatabaseContext.m
+++ b/EOAccess/EODatabaseContext.m
@@ -6305,7 +6305,7 @@ compareUsingEntityNames(id left, id right, void* vpSortOrders)
       unsigned char bytes[24];
       id            byteValue = nil;
       
-      bzero(&bytes, sizeof(bytes));
+      memset(&bytes, 0, sizeof(bytes));
       
       [EOTemporaryGlobalID assignGloballyUniqueBytes:&bytes[0]];