diff --git a/harbour/ChangeLog b/harbour/ChangeLog
index 26aebd6347..6296d4ca2e 100644
--- a/harbour/ChangeLog
+++ b/harbour/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+19990910-17:00 EDT David G. Holm <dholm@jsd-llc.com>
+  * source/rtl/inkey.c
+    ! In HARBOUR HB_INKEY( void ), the double seconds variable has to
+      be initialized to 0.0, because not all compilers initialize all
+      local variables to 0 and seconds is not assigned if INKEY() was
+      called with no parameters.
+
 19990910-22:10 GMT+1 Victor Szel <info@szelvesz.hu>
   * source/vm/hvm.c
     ! Fixed the operator overloading feature. (Reported by David)
diff --git a/harbour/source/rtl/inkey.c b/harbour/source/rtl/inkey.c
index 15b2235402..e3b1fe289c 100644
--- a/harbour/source/rtl/inkey.c
+++ b/harbour/source/rtl/inkey.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ HARBOUR HB_INKEY( void )
    int args = hb_pcount();
    int key = 0;
    BOOL wait = FALSE, forever = FALSE;
-   double seconds;
+   double seconds = 0.0;
    HB_inkey_enum event_mask = hb_set.HB_SET_EVENTMASK; /* Default to the SET input event mask */
 
    if( args > 2 )