diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/findtimezone.c b/src/bin/initdb/findtimezone.c
index 47c833fc81b..a087a764be5 100644
--- a/src/bin/initdb/findtimezone.c
+++ b/src/bin/initdb/findtimezone.c
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ build_time_t(int year, int month, int day)
 	tm.tm_mday = day;
 	tm.tm_mon = month - 1;
 	tm.tm_year = year - 1900;
+	tm.tm_isdst = -1;
 
 	return mktime(&tm);
 }
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c
index a67e110660f..df052a6c465 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c
@@ -3615,7 +3615,6 @@ void
 ReadHead(ArchiveHandle *AH)
 {
 	int			fmt;
-	struct tm	crtm;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we haven't already read the header, do so.
@@ -3683,6 +3682,8 @@ ReadHead(ArchiveHandle *AH)
 
 	if (AH->version >= K_VERS_1_4)
 	{
+		struct tm	crtm;
+
 		crtm.tm_sec = ReadInt(AH);
 		crtm.tm_min = ReadInt(AH);
 		crtm.tm_hour = ReadInt(AH);
@@ -3691,12 +3692,33 @@ ReadHead(ArchiveHandle *AH)
 		crtm.tm_year = ReadInt(AH);
 		crtm.tm_isdst = ReadInt(AH);
 
-		AH->archdbname = ReadStr(AH);
-
+		/*
+		 * Newer versions of glibc have mktime() report failure if tm_isdst is
+		 * inconsistent with the prevailing timezone, e.g. tm_isdst = 1 when
+		 * TZ=UTC.  This is problematic when restoring an archive under a
+		 * different timezone setting.  If we get a failure, try again with
+		 * tm_isdst set to -1 ("don't know").
+		 *
+		 * XXX with or without this hack, we reconstruct createDate
+		 * incorrectly when the prevailing timezone is different from
+		 * pg_dump's.  Next time we bump the archive version, we should flush
+		 * this representation and store a plain seconds-since-the-Epoch
+		 * timestamp instead.
+		 */
 		AH->createDate = mktime(&crtm);
-
 		if (AH->createDate == (time_t) -1)
-			write_msg(modulename, "WARNING: invalid creation date in header\n");
+		{
+			crtm.tm_isdst = -1;
+			AH->createDate = mktime(&crtm);
+			if (AH->createDate == (time_t) -1)
+				write_msg(modulename,
+						  "WARNING: invalid creation date in header\n");
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (AH->version >= K_VERS_1_4)
+	{
+		AH->archdbname = ReadStr(AH);
 	}
 
 	if (AH->version >= K_VERS_1_10)