diff --git a/vlc.changes b/vlc.changes
index 91d3ec3..0f0e60e 100644
--- a/vlc.changes
+++ b/vlc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb  4 10:11:09 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add vlc.changes as source so that we can reliably access it
+  during build, even when using the .src.rpm.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 22 15:03:10 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/vlc.spec b/vlc.spec
index 552f813..3ef515f 100644
--- a/vlc.spec
+++ b/vlc.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package vlc
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2015 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2015 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 # Copyright (c) 2012 Dominique Leuenberger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Version:        2.1.5
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://www.videolan.org/
 Source:         http://download.videolan.org/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
+# Add vlc.changes as source, so we can reproducibly extract the date from it during build
+Source1:        %{name}.changes
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch -- see description in patch header 
 Patch1:         vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM vlc-CVE-2014-9625.patch boo#914268 CVE-2014-9625 dimstar@opensuse.org -- Fix various buffer overflows and null ptr deref
@@ -299,7 +301,6 @@ Conflicts:      %{conflicts}-gnome
 In order to integrate flawless into GNOME, there are some access modules
 for gnome-vfs2.
 
-%prep
 %setup -q
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
@@ -308,8 +309,8 @@ for gnome-vfs2.
 rm -rf contrib
 # fix builddate info
 # Remove build time references so build-compare can do its work
-FAKE_BUILDTIME=$(LC_ALL=C date -u -r %{_sourcedir}/%{name}.changes '+%%H:%%M')
-FAKE_BUILDDATE=$(LC_ALL=C date -u -r %{_sourcedir}/%{name}.changes '+%%b %%e %%Y')
+FAKE_BUILDTIME=$(LC_ALL=C date -u -r %{S:1} '+%%H:%%M')
+FAKE_BUILDDATE=$(LC_ALL=C date -u -r %{S:1} '+%%b %%e %%Y')
 sed -e "s/__TIME__/\"$FAKE_BUILDTIME\"/" -i modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/help.cpp src/config/help.c
 sed -e "s/__DATE__/\"$FAKE_BUILDDATE\"/" -i modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/help.cpp src/config/help.c