diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4fca9aed3..b2747a041 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -131,10 +131,10 @@ AC_SUBST(MATH_LIBS)
 AC_CHECK_LIB(syslog,syslog)             # OS/2 needs this
 
 dnl Checks for library functions.
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([atexit snprintf select gettimeofday memmove memset])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([atexit snprintf select memmove memset])
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strcasecmp strchr strdup strerror strrchr strstr strtol])
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([cfmakeraw setitimer])
-AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([getopt_long usleep])
+AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([getopt_long usleep gettimeofday])
 AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
 #AC_FUNC_MALLOC
 AC_FUNC_VPRINTF
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am
index 6f3b46051..7df9e3b14 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 EXTRA_DIST = getopt.c getopt.h getopt_long.c usleep.c \
-		termios.c win32termios.h
+		termios.c win32termios.h gettimeofday.c
 
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libmisc.la
 
diff --git a/lib/gettimeofday.c b/lib/gettimeofday.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da6974077
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/gettimeofday.c
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#ifdef HAVE_WINDOWS_H
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_WINBASE_H
+# include <winbase.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+#ifndef timezone
+struct timezone {
+	int  tz_minuteswest;
+	int  tz_dsttime;
+};
+#endif
+
+/* 
+ * broken implementation for WIN32. 
+ * FIXME: usec precision
+ */
+int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
+{
+	if (tv) {
+		time_t tm;
+		
+		time(&tm);
+		tv->tv_sec = tm;
+		tv->tv_usec = 0;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+