diff --git a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
index 4cd26f928..6e27cae0d 100644
--- a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-07-23  Chris Sutcliffe  <ir0nh34d@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* msvcrt.def.in: disable time symbol for libmsvcr90.a and libmsvcr90d.a due
+	to complaints that it causes issues.
+
 2009-07-23  Jacky Lai  <crazyjacky@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	* mingwex/math/fminf.c: switch to using __isnanf() as opposed to _isnan().
diff --git a/winsup/mingw/msvcrt.def.in b/winsup/mingw/msvcrt.def.in
index d9ce11e41..4e8728deb 100644
--- a/winsup/mingw/msvcrt.def.in
+++ b/winsup/mingw/msvcrt.def.in
@@ -680,7 +680,9 @@ swscanf
 system
 tan
 tanh
+#if  !(__msvcr90__ || msvcr90d__)
 time
+#endif
 tmpfile
 tmpnam
 tolower