diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7e73fecab5..ef8718b7d2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-04-08  Dave Peticolas  <dave@krondo.com>
+
+	* src/engine/Query-xml-parser-v1.c
+	(qrestore_datepred_start_handler): use g_new0 instead of bzero --
+	more portable
+
 2001-04-07  Dave Peticolas  <dave@krondo.com>
 
 	* src/engine/md5.h: include stddef.h for size_t
diff --git a/src/engine/Query-xml-parser-v1.c b/src/engine/Query-xml-parser-v1.c
index 56ce024d1c..ec5bb6fece 100644
--- a/src/engine/Query-xml-parser-v1.c
+++ b/src/engine/Query-xml-parser-v1.c
@@ -368,9 +368,8 @@ qrestore_datepred_start_handler(GSList* sibling_data, gpointer parent_data,
                                 gpointer *result, const gchar *tag,
                                 gchar **attrs)
 {
-  DatePredicateData *dp = g_new (DatePredicateData, 1);
+  DatePredicateData *dp = g_new0 (DatePredicateData, 1);
   g_return_val_if_fail(dp, FALSE);
-  bzero (dp, sizeof (DatePredicateData));
   dp->type = PD_DATE;
   dp->term_type = PR_DATE;
   *data_for_children = dp;
diff --git a/src/register/table-html.c b/src/register/table-html.c
index 824fe1e3fc..e9ae7105a4 100644
--- a/src/register/table-html.c
+++ b/src/register/table-html.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ xaccTableWebServeHTML (Table * table, unsigned short port)
    listen_fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
    CHKERR (listen_fd, "cant listen");
 
-   bzero ((void*) &myaddr, sizeof (struct sockaddr_in));
+   memset ((void*) &myaddr, 0, sizeof (struct sockaddr_in));
    myaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    myaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_ANY);
    myaddr.sin_port = htons (port);   /* WWW server is port 80 but that is usperuser only */