diff -urN cvs-1.12.13.org/src/status.c cvs-1.12.13/src/status.c
--- cvs-1.12.13.org/src/status.c	2005-09-22 20:38:28.000000000 +0200
+++ cvs-1.12.13/src/status.c	2007-11-06 09:55:55.830920982 +0100
@@ -213,8 +213,9 @@
 	cvs_output ("   Working revision:\t", 0);
 	cvs_output (vers->vn_user, 0);
 
-	/* Only add the UTC timezone if there is a time to use. */
-	if (!server_active && strlen (vers->ts_rcs) > 0)
+	/* Only add the UTC timezone if there is a time to use.
+	 * ts_rcs sometimes contains only "=" character so we check len > 1 */
+	if (!server_active && strlen (vers->ts_rcs) > 1)
 	{
 	    /* Convert from the asctime() format to ISO 8601 */
 	    char *buf;