diff --git a/SOPE/NGCards/ChangeLog b/SOPE/NGCards/ChangeLog
index 801f22856..549ad5a29 100644
--- a/SOPE/NGCards/ChangeLog
+++ b/SOPE/NGCards/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-11-02  Wolfgang Sourdeau  <wsourdeau@inverse.ca>
+
+	* iCalDateHolder.m ([iCalDateHolder -awakeAfterUsingSaxDecoder:]):
+	make use of cStringUsingEncoding: instead of getString:length: to
+	retrieve the buffer content to work-around a bug in gnustep-base.
+
 2007-11-01  Wolfgang Sourdeau  <wsourdeau@inverse.ca>
 
 	* CardGroup.m ([CardGroup +parseFromSource:source]): make sure the
diff --git a/SOPE/NGCards/iCalDateHolder.m b/SOPE/NGCards/iCalDateHolder.m
index c6e73890a..7115447c8 100644
--- a/SOPE/NGCards/iCalDateHolder.m
+++ b/SOPE/NGCards/iCalDateHolder.m
@@ -130,14 +130,17 @@ static NSTimeZone *gmt = nil;
   if ([s rangeOfString:@"T"].length == 0 && [s length] == 8) {
     /* hm, maybe a date without a time? like an allday event! */
     int year, month, day;
-    char buf[16];
-    [s getCString:&(buf[0])];
-    
-    buf[9] = '\0';
-    day    = atoi(&(buf[6]));  buf[6] = '\0';
-    month  = atoi(&(buf[4]));  buf[4] = '\0';
-    year   = atoi(&(buf[0]));
+    char *buf;
+
+    buf = strdup([s cStringUsingEncoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding]);
     
+    day    = atoi(buf + 6);
+    buf[6] = '\0';
+    month  = atoi(buf + 4);
+    buf[4] = '\0';
+    year   = atoi(buf);
+    free (buf);
+
     date = [NSCalendarDate dateWithYear:year month:month day:day
                            hour:0 minute:0 second:0
                            timeZone:tz];