diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bb53a33e68..31e49765ba 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-09-26  Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
+
+	* include/time.h: Add struct __timespec64 definition
+
 2019-09-26  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
 
 	* scripts/vcs_to_changelog/misc_util.py (decode): Remove latin1
diff --git a/include/time.h b/include/time.h
index dcf91855ad..9727786634 100644
--- a/include/time.h
+++ b/include/time.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # include <bits/types/locale_t.h>
 # include <stdbool.h>
 # include <time/mktime-internal.h>
+# include <endian.h>
 
 extern __typeof (strftime_l) __strftime_l;
 libc_hidden_proto (__strftime_l)
@@ -49,6 +50,29 @@ extern void __tzset_parse_tz (const char *tz) attribute_hidden;
 extern void __tz_compute (__time64_t timer, struct tm *tm, int use_localtime)
   __THROW attribute_hidden;
 
+#if __TIMESIZE == 64
+# define __timespec64 timespec
+#else
+/* The glibc Y2038-proof struct __timespec64 structure for a time value.
+   To keep things Posix-ish, we keep the nanoseconds field a 32-bit
+   signed long, but since the Linux field is a 64-bit signed int, we
+   pad our tv_nsec with a 32-bit unnamed bit-field padding.
+
+   As a general rule the Linux kernel is ignoring upper 32 bits of
+   tv_nsec field.  */
+struct __timespec64
+{
+  __time64_t tv_sec;         /* Seconds */
+# if BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
+  __int32_t :32;             /* Padding */
+  __int32_t tv_nsec;         /* Nanoseconds */
+# else
+  __int32_t tv_nsec;         /* Nanoseconds */
+  __int32_t :32;             /* Padding */
+# endif
+};
+#endif
+
 #if __TIMESIZE == 64
 # define __ctime64 ctime
 #else