diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 89a3d716b..99ad678d3 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 
+
+Daniel (4 October 2005)
+- Michael Wallner reported that the date parser had wrong offset stored for
+  the MEST and CEST time zones.
+
 Daniel (27 September 2005)
 - David Yan filed bug #1299181 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1299181)
   that identified a silly problem with Content-Range: headers with the 'bytes'
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index b0d5556fa..2ce6b2623 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -37,6 +37,6 @@ This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
  o John Kelly, Nicolas François, Scott Davis, Ben Madsen, Dmitry Bartsevich,
-   David Yan
+   David Yan, Michael Wallner
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/lib/parsedate.c b/lib/parsedate.c
index caf38a2ca..52684825f 100644
--- a/lib/parsedate.c
+++ b/lib/parsedate.c
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ static const struct tzinfo tz[]= {
   {"CET", -60},            /* Central European */
   {"MET", -60},            /* Middle European */
   {"MEWT", -60},           /* Middle European Winter */
-  {"MEST", -120 tDAYZONE}, /* Middle European Summer */
-  {"CEST", -120 tDAYZONE}, /* Central European Summer */
+  {"MEST", -60 tDAYZONE},  /* Middle European Summer */
+  {"CEST", -60 tDAYZONE},  /* Central European Summer */
   {"MESZ", -60 tDAYZONE},  /* Middle European Summer */
   {"FWT", -60},            /* French Winter */
   {"FST", -60 tDAYZONE},   /* French Summer */