diff --git a/doc/source/authors.rst b/doc/source/authors.rst
index 031523c60..f850324f4 100644
--- a/doc/source/authors.rst
+++ b/doc/source/authors.rst
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ and may not be the current affiliation of a contributor.
 * Sai Asish Yamani [51]
 * Kevin Doran [52]
 * Aditya Singh (github)
+* Arthur031221 (github)
 
 1. Centre de Recherche en Neuroscience de Lyon, CNRS UMR5292 - INSERM U1028 - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
 2. Unité de Neuroscience, Information et Complexité, CNRS UPR 3293, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
diff --git a/neo/core/analogsignal.py b/neo/core/analogsignal.py
index 252224f16..d7e64355e 100644
--- a/neo/core/analogsignal.py
+++ b/neo/core/analogsignal.py
@@ -506,13 +506,16 @@ def time_slice(self, t_start, t_stop):
         the nearest sampling bin. The time bin for t_stop will be chosen to
         make the duration of the resultant signal as close as possible to
         t_stop - t_start. This means that for a given duration, the size
-        of the slice will always be the same.
+        of the slice will always be the same. Either parameter can also be
+        None, in which case that end of the signal is not cut.
         """
 
         # checking start time and transforming to start index
         if t_start is None:
             i = 0
-            t_start = 0 * pq.s
+            # index 0 is self.t_start, and the stop index below is an offset
+            # from t_start, so the signal's own start is the origin here
+            t_start = self.t_start
         else:
             i = self.time_index(t_start)
 
diff --git a/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py b/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py
index b79c17f32..09b5e94dc 100644
--- a/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py
+++ b/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py
@@ -542,6 +542,43 @@ def test__time_slice__no_explicit_time(self):
             assert_array_equal(result.magnitude, targ.magnitude)
             assert_same_sub_schema(result, targ)
 
+    def test__time_slice__no_explicit_start_measures_from_signal_start(self):
+        # t_start=None means "do not cut the start", so the stop index has to be
+        # counted from the signal's own start. Counting it from 0 s instead
+        # lands in several different ways: too many samples, too few, a negative
+        # index that slices from the end, and an index past the end that raises.
+        # The last row is a sub-sample offset, where the two origins round to
+        # different indices even though the offset is under half a period.
+        cases = [
+            (20, 1.0 * pq.Hz, 5.0 * pq.s, 7.0 * pq.s, 2),
+            (20, 1.0 * pq.Hz, -2.0 * pq.s, 1.0 * pq.s, 3),
+            (20, 1.0 * pq.Hz, -2.0 * pq.s, -1.0 * pq.s, 1),
+            (20, 1.0 * pq.Hz, 30.0 * pq.s, 33.0 * pq.s, 3),
+            (50, 1.0 * pq.kHz, 0.4 * pq.ms, 10.6 * pq.ms, 10),
+        ]
+        for n, rate, t_start, t_stop, n_expected in cases:
+            data = np.arange(float(n)).reshape(n, 1) * pq.mV
+            signal = AnalogSignal(data, sampling_rate=rate, t_start=t_start)
+
+            result = signal.time_slice(None, t_stop)
+
+            self.assertIsInstance(result, AnalogSignal)
+            assert_neo_object_is_compliant(result)
+            self.assertEqual(len(result), n_expected, f"t_start={t_start}, t_stop={t_stop}")
+            self.assertEqual(result.t_start, t_start)
+            assert_array_equal(result.magnitude, signal.magnitude[:n_expected])
+            assert_arrays_almost_equal(result.times, signal.time_slice(t_start, t_stop).times, 1e-12 * pq.ms)
+
+    def test__time_slice__no_explicit_start_refuses_what_explicit_start_refuses(self):
+        # None has to behave as passing the signal's own t_start does, which
+        # includes refusing a t_stop past the end rather than returning a slice
+        # measured from zero. This call returns 1600 samples without the fix.
+        signal = AnalogSignal(
+            np.arange(2000.0).reshape(2000, 1) * pq.mV, sampling_rate=1.0 * pq.kHz, t_start=-0.5 * pq.s
+        )
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, signal.time_slice, signal.t_start, 1.6 * pq.s)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, signal.time_slice, None, 1.6 * pq.s)
+
     def test__time_slice_deepcopy_data(self):
         result = self.signal1.time_slice(None, None)