diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index 781dfbb7c3f..c9fe372a4a2 100644
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2013-05-31  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* inc/sys/time.h (gettimeofday): Use '__restrict' instead of
+	'restrict', which is a C99 extension.  See
+	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-05/msg00588.html
+	and the following discussion for the problem this caused in the
+	old nt/configure.bat build.
+
 2013-05-29  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
 	* Makefile.in (emacs.res): Include srcdir when preprocessing
diff --git a/nt/inc/sys/time.h b/nt/inc/sys/time.h
index 87ad9d3ff0d..e586aaee07e 100644
--- a/nt/inc/sys/time.h
+++ b/nt/inc/sys/time.h
@@ -35,10 +35,15 @@ struct timezone
 };
 #endif
 
+
 /* This needs to be compatible with Posix signature, in order to pass
-   the configure test for the type of the second argument.  See
-   m4/gettimeofday.m4.  */
-int gettimeofday (struct timeval *restrict, struct timezone *restrict);
+   the configure test for the type of the second argument; see
+   m4/gettimeofday.m4.  We use '__restrict' here, rather than
+   'restrict', for the benefit of the old nt/configure.bat build,
+   which does not force the use of -std= switch to GCC, and that
+   causes compilation errors with 'restrict', which is a C99
+   extension.  */
+int gettimeofday (struct timeval *__restrict, struct timezone *__restrict);
 
 #define ITIMER_REAL      0
 #define ITIMER_PROF      1