diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
index 992a516e3f..a71576c48a 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/Jamfile
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@ MergeObject posix_sys.o :
  	uio.c
  	umask.c
  	uname.c
+ 	utimes.c
 	wait.c
 ;
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/utimes.c b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/utimes.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..00b442b48c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/sys/utimes.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2006, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de.
+ * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
+ */
+
+
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <utime.h>
+
+
+int
+utimes(const char *file, const struct timeval times[2])
+{
+	struct utimbuf buffer, *timeBuffer;
+
+	if (times != NULL) {
+		timeBuffer = &buffer;
+		buffer.actime = times[0].tv_sec + times[0].tv_usec / 1000000LL;
+		buffer.modtime = times[1].tv_sec + times[1].tv_usec / 1000000LL;
+	} else
+		timeBuffer = NULL;
+
+	return utime(file, timeBuffer);
+}
+