diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
index fecdd85cd415..add9b30fb629 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/4.9/default.nix
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ let version = "4.9.3";
 
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-    patches = [ ]
+    patches =
+      [ ../use-source-date-epoch.patch ]
       ++ optionals enableParallelBuilding [ ../parallel-bconfig.patch ./parallel-strsignal.patch ]
       ++ optional (cross != null) ../libstdc++-target.patch
       ++ optional noSysDirs ../no-sys-dirs.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix
index f3dda7d13f7c..3b105143c0bf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/5/default.nix
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ let version = "5.3.0";
 
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-    patches = [ ]
+    patches =
+      [ ../use-source-date-epoch.patch ]
       ++ optional (cross != null) ../libstdc++-target.patch
       ++ optional noSysDirs ../no-sys-dirs.patch
       # The GNAT Makefiles did not pay attention to CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET for its
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/use-source-date-epoch.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/use-source-date-epoch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..65a5ab028c1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/use-source-date-epoch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-06/msg02210.html
+
+diff --git a/libcpp/macro.c b/libcpp/macro.c
+index 1e0a0b5..a52e3cb 100644
+--- a/libcpp/macro.c
++++ b/libcpp/macro.c
+@@ -349,14 +349,38 @@ _cpp_builtin_macro_text (cpp_reader *pfile, cpp_hashnode *node)
+ 	     slow on some systems.  */
+ 	  time_t tt;
+ 	  struct tm *tb = NULL;
++	  char *source_date_epoch;
+ 
+-	  /* (time_t) -1 is a legitimate value for "number of seconds
+-	     since the Epoch", so we have to do a little dance to
+-	     distinguish that from a genuine error.  */
+-	  errno = 0;
+-	  tt = time(NULL);
+-	  if (tt != (time_t)-1 || errno == 0)
+-	    tb = localtime (&tt);
++	  /* Allow the date and time to be set externally by an exported
++	     environment variable to enable reproducible builds. */
++	  source_date_epoch = getenv ("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH");
++	  if (source_date_epoch)
++	    {
++	      errno = 0;
++	      tt = (time_t) strtol (source_date_epoch, NULL, 10);
++	      if (errno == 0)
++	        {
++		  tb = gmtime (&tt);
++		  if (tb == NULL)
++		    cpp_error (pfile, CPP_DL_ERROR,
++			       "SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=\"%s\" is not a valid date",
++			       source_date_epoch);
++	        }
++	      else
++		cpp_error (pfile, CPP_DL_ERROR,
++			   "SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=\"%s\" is not a valid number",
++			   source_date_epoch);
++	    }
++	  else
++	    {
++	    /* (time_t) -1 is a legitimate value for "number of seconds
++	       since the Epoch", so we have to do a little dance to
++	       distinguish that from a genuine error.  */
++	    errno = 0;
++	    tt = time(NULL);
++	    if (tt != (time_t)-1 || errno == 0)
++	      tb = localtime (&tt);
++	  }
+ 
+ 	  if (tb)
+ 	    {