diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index cd711c6d018..ea07126f78e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -268,6 +268,10 @@ elif host_system == 'windows'
   exesuffix = '.exe'
   dlsuffix = '.dll'
   library_path_var = ''
+  if cc.get_id() != 'msvc'
+    # define before including <time.h> for getting localtime_r() etc. on MinGW
+    cppflags += '-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE'
+  endif
 
   export_file_format = 'win'
   export_file_suffix = 'def'
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
index 48b7e16d81b..643cca05d38 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
@@ -826,6 +826,7 @@ cache_locale_time(void)
 	char	   *bufptr;
 	time_t		timenow;
 	struct tm  *timeinfo;
+	struct tm	timeinfobuf;
 	bool		strftimefail = false;
 	int			encoding;
 	int			i;
@@ -876,7 +877,7 @@ cache_locale_time(void)
 
 	/* We use times close to current time as data for strftime(). */
 	timenow = time(NULL);
-	timeinfo = localtime(&timenow);
+	timeinfo = gmtime_r(&timenow, &timeinfobuf);
 
 	/* Store the strftime results in MAX_L10N_DATA-sized portions of buf[] */
 	bufptr = buf;
diff --git a/src/include/port/win32_port.h b/src/include/port/win32_port.h
index 7ffe5891c69..7789e0431aa 100644
--- a/src/include/port/win32_port.h
+++ b/src/include/port/win32_port.h
@@ -420,6 +420,19 @@ extern int	_pglstat64(const char *name, struct stat *buf);
  */
 #define strtok_r strtok_s
 
+/*
+ * Supplement to <time.h>.
+ */
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+/*
+ * MinGW has these functions if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined.  Third-party
+ * libraries might do that, so to avoid clashes we get ahead of it and define
+ * it ourselves and use the system functions provided by MinGW.
+ */
+#define gmtime_r(clock, result) (gmtime_s(result, clock) ? NULL : (result))
+#define localtime_r(clock, result) (localtime_s(result, clock) ? NULL : (result))
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Locale stuff.
  *
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c
index ed08088bfe1..0d63fe52c5b 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c
@@ -949,9 +949,10 @@ int
 GetEpochTime(struct tm *tm)
 {
 	struct tm  *t0;
+	struct tm	tmbuf;
 	time_t		epoch = 0;
 
-	t0 = gmtime(&epoch);
+	t0 = gmtime_r(&epoch, &tmbuf);
 
 	if (t0)
 	{
@@ -973,12 +974,13 @@ abstime2tm(AbsoluteTime _time, int *tzp, struct tm *tm, char **tzn)
 {
 	time_t		time = (time_t) _time;
 	struct tm  *tx;
+	struct tm	tmbuf;
 
 	errno = 0;
 	if (tzp != NULL)
-		tx = localtime((time_t *) &time);
+		tx = localtime_r(&time, &tmbuf);
 	else
-		tx = gmtime((time_t *) &time);
+		tx = gmtime_r(&time, &tmbuf);
 
 	if (!tx)
 	{
@@ -2810,9 +2812,10 @@ PGTYPEStimestamp_defmt_scan(char **str, char *fmt, timestamp * d,
 				/* number of seconds in scan_val.luint_val */
 				{
 					struct tm  *tms;
+					struct tm	tmbuf;
 					time_t		et = (time_t) scan_val.luint_val;
 
-					tms = gmtime(&et);
+					tms = gmtime_r(&et, &tmbuf);
 
 					if (tms)
 					{
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c
index 402fae6da67..7cf433266f4 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c
@@ -129,11 +129,12 @@ timestamp2tm(timestamp dt, int *tzp, struct tm *tm, fsec_t *fsec, const char **t
 		if (IS_VALID_UTIME(tm->tm_year, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_mday))
 		{
 #if defined(HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE) || defined(HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE)
+			struct tm	tmbuf;
 
 			utime = dt / USECS_PER_SEC +
 				((date0 - date2j(1970, 1, 1)) * INT64CONST(86400));
 
-			tx = localtime(&utime);
+			tx = localtime_r(&utime, &tmbuf);
 			tm->tm_year = tx->tm_year + 1900;
 			tm->tm_mon = tx->tm_mon + 1;
 			tm->tm_mday = tx->tm_mday;
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c
index bff7d919d57..19c5b8a8900 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ pqTraceFormatTimestamp(char *timestr, size_t ts_len)
 {
 	struct timeval tval;
 	time_t		now;
+	struct tm	tmbuf;
 
 	gettimeofday(&tval, NULL);
 
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ pqTraceFormatTimestamp(char *timestr, size_t ts_len)
 	now = tval.tv_sec;
 	strftime(timestr, ts_len,
 			 "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
-			 localtime(&now));
+			 localtime_r(&now, &tmbuf));
 	/* append microseconds */
 	snprintf(timestr + strlen(timestr), ts_len - strlen(timestr),
 			 ".%06u", (unsigned int) (tval.tv_usec));
diff --git a/src/template/win32 b/src/template/win32
index 1895f067a88..4f8b0923fe0 100644
--- a/src/template/win32
+++ b/src/template/win32
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # src/template/win32
 
+# define before including <time.h> for getting localtime_r() etc. on MinGW
+CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE"
+
 # Extra CFLAGS for code that will go into a shared library
 CFLAGS_SL=""