diff --git a/geoipupdate.changes b/geoipupdate.changes
index 9eca246..63c554e 100644
--- a/geoipupdate.changes
+++ b/geoipupdate.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jun 20 05:35:01 UTC 2019 - Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@rosenauer.org>
+
+- added systemd timer for weekly updates
+  (needs to be enabled by admin)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun 19 10:34:53 UTC 2019 - Johannes Weberhofer <jweberhofer@weberhofer.at>
 
diff --git a/geoipupdate.service b/geoipupdate.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..894e8f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/geoipupdate.service
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Update GeoIP databases
+Documentation=man:geoipupdate(1) man:GeoIP.conf(5)
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/GeoIP
+
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/geoipupdate
diff --git a/geoipupdate.spec b/geoipupdate.spec
index 3bd0844..69dccce 100644
--- a/geoipupdate.spec
+++ b/geoipupdate.spec
@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ License:        GPL-2.0-only
 Group:          Productivity/Networking/System
 URL:            https://www.maxmind.com
 Source0:        https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate-legacy/archive/v%{version}/%{name}-legacy-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1:        geoipupdate.timer
+Source2:        geoipupdate.service
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libcurl)
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(systemd)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(zlib)
 Conflicts:      GeoIP < 1.6.0
+%{?systemd_requires}
 
 %description
 The GeoIP Update program performs automatic updates of GeoIP2 and GeoIP
@@ -51,10 +55,24 @@ install -d %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/lib/GeoIP
 install -D -p -m 0644 conf/GeoIP.conf.default \
   %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/GeoIP.conf.default
 rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/geoipupdate
+install -D -m 0644 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/%{name}.timer
+install -D -m 0644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/%{name}.service
 
 %check
 make %{?_smp_mflags} check
 
+%pre
+%service_add_pre %{name}.service
+
+%post
+%service_add_post %{name}.service
+
+%preun
+%service_del_preun %{name}.service
+
+%postun
+%service_del_postun %{name}.service
+
 %files
 %license LICENSE
 %doc README.md ChangeLog.md
@@ -62,6 +80,8 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags} check
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/GeoIP.conf.default
 %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/GeoIP
 %{_bindir}/geoipupdate
+%{_unitdir}/%{name}.service
+%{_unitdir}/%{name}.timer
 %{_mandir}/man1/geoipupdate.1%{?ext_man}
 %{_mandir}/man5/GeoIP.conf.5%{?ext_man}
 
diff --git a/geoipupdate.timer b/geoipupdate.timer
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42dd542
--- /dev/null
+++ b/geoipupdate.timer
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Weekly update of GeoLite2 databases
+Documentation=man:geoipupdate(1) man:GeoIP.conf(5)
+
+[Timer]
+OnUnitInactiveSec=1w
+OnStartupSec=1h
+AccuracySec=1h
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=timers.target
+