diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 46184bd95..3ebfc099b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-03-16  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
+
+	* mkvmerge: enhancement: The SRT reader allows "." as the decimal
+	separator as well as ",".
+
 2007-03-12  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
 
 	* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed a problem with concatenating more than
diff --git a/src/input/r_srt.cpp b/src/input/r_srt.cpp
index 26dee373b..73a533e6a 100644
--- a/src/input/r_srt.cpp
+++ b/src/input/r_srt.cpp
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 using namespace std;
 
-#define RE_TIMECODE "(\\d{1,2}):(\\d{1,2}):(\\d{1,2}),(\\d+)?"
+#define RE_TIMECODE "(\\d{1,2}):(\\d{1,2}):(\\d{1,2})[,\\.](\\d+)?"
 #define RE_TIMECODE_LINE "^" RE_TIMECODE "\\s+-+>\\s+" RE_TIMECODE "\\s*"
 
 int