diff --git a/liblog/include/log/log_time.h b/liblog/include/log/log_time.h
index 3764faf75..309f5d12f 100644
--- a/liblog/include/log/log_time.h
+++ b/liblog/include/log/log_time.h
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
 #ifndef __struct_log_time_defined
 #define __struct_log_time_defined
 
+#define LOG_TIME_SEC(t) ((t)->tv_sec)
+/* next power of two after NS_PER_SEC */
+#define LOG_TIME_NSEC(t) ((t)->tv_nsec & (UINT32_MAX >> 2))
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 
 /*
@@ -167,15 +171,15 @@ struct log_time {
 #endif
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
-#else
+#else /* __cplusplus */
 
 typedef struct log_time {
   uint32_t tv_sec;
   uint32_t tv_nsec;
 } __attribute__((__packed__)) log_time;
 
-#endif
+#endif /* __cplusplus */
 
-#endif
+#endif /* __struct_log_time_defined */
 
 #endif /* _LIBS_LOG_LOG_TIME_H */
diff --git a/liblog/include_vndk/log/log_time.h b/liblog/include_vndk/log/log_time.h
deleted file mode 120000
index abfe439ae..000000000
--- a/liblog/include_vndk/log/log_time.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../include/log/log_time.h
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/liblog/include_vndk/log/log_time.h b/liblog/include_vndk/log/log_time.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a09959a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/liblog/include_vndk/log/log_time.h
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005-2017 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LIBS_LOG_LOG_TIME_H
+#define _LIBS_LOG_LOG_TIME_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/* struct log_time is a wire-format variant of struct timespec */
+#ifndef NS_PER_SEC
+#define NS_PER_SEC 1000000000ULL
+#endif
+#ifndef US_PER_SEC
+#define US_PER_SEC 1000000ULL
+#endif
+#ifndef MS_PER_SEC
+#define MS_PER_SEC 1000ULL
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __struct_log_time_defined
+#define __struct_log_time_defined
+
+#define LOG_TIME_SEC(t) ((t)->tv_sec)
+/* next power of two after NS_PER_SEC */
+#define LOG_TIME_NSEC(t) ((t)->tv_nsec & (UINT32_MAX >> 2))
+
+typedef struct log_time {
+  uint32_t tv_sec;
+  uint32_t tv_nsec;
+} __attribute__((__packed__)) log_time;
+
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _LIBS_LOG_LOG_TIME_H */
diff --git a/libutils/SystemClock.cpp b/libutils/SystemClock.cpp
index 28fc35145..73ec1be96 100644
--- a/libutils/SystemClock.cpp
+++ b/libutils/SystemClock.cpp
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
 
 #include <utils/SystemClock.h>
 
-#include <sys/time.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <time.h>
 
 #include <cutils/compiler.h>