diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index aebf71459..7d8cc3933 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ documentation = "https://doc.rust-lang.org/time"
 description = """
 Utilities for working with time-related functions in Rust.
 """
+build = "build.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 libc = "0.2.1"
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ redox_syscall = "0.1"
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
 winapi = { version = "0.3.0", features = ["std", "minwinbase", "minwindef", "ntdef", "profileapi", "sysinfoapi", "timezoneapi"] }
 
+[build-dependencies]
+rustc_version = "0.2"
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 log = "0.4"
 winapi = { version = "0.3.0", features = ["std", "processthreadsapi", "winbase"] }
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..30ca72c1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+extern crate rustc_version;
+use rustc_version::{version, Version};
+
+fn main() {
+    if version().unwrap() >= Version::parse("1.31.0").unwrap() {
+        println!("cargo:rustc-cfg=feature=\"has_const_fn\"");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/sys.rs b/src/sys.rs
index 5ab79b03a..95894236f 100644
--- a/src/sys.rs
+++ b/src/sys.rs
@@ -873,8 +873,52 @@ mod inner {
 
     pub fn get_time() -> (i64, i32) {
         unsafe {
-            let mut ft = mem::zeroed();
-            GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&mut ft);
+            let mut ft: FILETIME = mem::zeroed();
+
+            // Based on work from: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/67266
+            //
+            // Code adapted from Rust itself:
+            //
+            //     https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/sys/windows/compat.rs
+            //
+            // We need one of the available functions in Windows that lets us
+            // get the current time. We only want to load the symbol once, because
+            // loading symbols is costly, and we also want to be thread-safe.
+
+            use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
+            use winapi::um::libloaderapi;
+
+            #[cfg(not(feature = "has_const_fn"))]
+            use std::sync::atomic::{ATOMIC_USIZE_INIT};
+            #[cfg(not(feature = "has_const_fn"))]
+            static PTR: AtomicUsize = ATOMIC_USIZE_INIT;
+            #[cfg(feature = "has_const_fn")]
+            static PTR: AtomicUsize = AtomicUsize::new(0);
+
+            let addr = match PTR.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
+                0 => {
+                    // Check if GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime is exported from Windows' kernel32,
+                    // and take its address if so. Otherwise, fallback to the older
+                    // GetSystemTimeAsFileTime function.
+                    let module = b"kernel32\0".as_ptr() as *const i8;
+                    let symbol = b"GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime\0".as_ptr() as *const i8;
+                    let addr = {
+                        let handle = libloaderapi::GetModuleHandleA(module);
+                        match libloaderapi::GetProcAddress(handle, symbol) as usize {
+                            0 => GetSystemTimeAsFileTime as usize, // fallback function
+                            addr => addr,
+                        }
+                    };
+                    PTR.store(addr, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                    addr
+                }
+                addr => addr, // We already looked up the symbol - just return the address
+            };
+
+            // Call the function at `addr`:
+            type PFNGSTAFT = unsafe extern "system" fn(LPFILETIME);
+            mem::transmute::<usize, PFNGSTAFT>(addr)(&mut ft as LPFILETIME);
+
             (file_time_to_unix_seconds(&ft), file_time_to_nsec(&ft))
         }
     }