diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 8c26648ff..210eab715 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1760,3 +1760,5 @@
 - 'link xx with SSL option enabled on non-SSL compile' was incorrectly
   printed out as a warning, when in fact it's an error (and was treated as
   such). Same for ZIP on non-zip compile. Reported by Stealth (#0003833).
+- Fixed very silly 'time jumped .. seconds ahead (0 -> ..)' message which
+  happened on every IRCd boot.
diff --git a/src/ircd.c b/src/ircd.c
index e06c5fb67..3c024099f 100644
--- a/src/ircd.c
+++ b/src/ircd.c
@@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@ void SocketLoop(void *dummy)
 			fix_timers();
 			nextfdlistcheck = 0;
 		} else
-		if (timeofday - oldtimeofday > POSITIVE_SHIFT_WARN) /* do not set too low or you get false positives */
+		if ((oldtimeofday > 0) && (timeofday - oldtimeofday > POSITIVE_SHIFT_WARN)) /* do not set too low or you get false positives */
 		{
 			/* tdiff = # of seconds of time set forward (eg: 60) */
 			long tdiff = timeofday - oldtimeofday;