diff -Nruw busybox-1.21.0/coreutils/date.c src/coreutils/date.c
--- busybox-1.21.0/coreutils/date.c	2012-12-22 23:38:59.000000000 +0100
+++ src/coreutils/date.c	2020-03-26 20:55:56.443023694 +0100
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@
 		time(&ts.tv_sec);
 #endif
 	}
+#if !ENABLE_FEATURE_DATE_NANO
+	ts.tv_nsec = 0;
+#endif
 	localtime_r(&ts.tv_sec, &tm_time);
 
 	/* If date string is given, update tm_time, and maybe set date */
@@ -289,11 +292,12 @@
 		if (date_str[0] != '@')
 			tm_time.tm_isdst = -1;
 		ts.tv_sec = validate_tm_time(date_str, &tm_time);
+		ts.tv_nsec = 0;
 
 		maybe_set_utc(opt);
 
 		/* if setting time, set it */
-		if ((opt & OPT_SET) && stime(&ts.tv_sec) < 0) {
+		if ((opt & OPT_SET) && clock_settime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts) < 0) {
 			bb_perror_msg("can't set date");
 		}
 	}
diff -Nruw busybox-1.21.0/libbb/missing_syscalls.c src/libbb/missing_syscalls.c
--- busybox-1.21.0/libbb/missing_syscalls.c	2012-12-22 23:39:00.000000000 +0100
+++ src/libbb/missing_syscalls.c	2020-03-26 20:56:09.803156385 +0100
@@ -16,14 +16,6 @@
 	return syscall(__NR_getsid, pid);
 }
 
-int stime(const time_t *t)
-{
-	struct timeval tv;
-	tv.tv_sec = *t;
-	tv.tv_usec = 0;
-	return settimeofday(&tv, NULL);
-}
-
 int sethostname(const char *name, size_t len)
 {
 	return syscall(__NR_sethostname, name, len);
diff -Nruw busybox-1.21.0/util-linux/rdate.c src/util-linux/rdate.c
--- busybox-1.21.0/util-linux/rdate.c	2012-12-22 23:39:04.000000000 +0100
+++ src/util-linux/rdate.c	2020-03-26 20:57:11.623770815 +0100
@@ -67,10 +67,14 @@
 		time(&current_time);
 		if (current_time == remote_time)
 			bb_error_msg("current time matches remote time");
-		else
-			if (stime(&remote_time) < 0)
+		else {
+			struct timespec ts;
+			ts.tv_sec = remote_time;
+			ts.tv_nsec = 0;
+			if (clock_settime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts) < 0)
 				bb_perror_msg_and_die("can't set time of day");
 	}
+	}
 
 	if (flags != 1) /* not lone -s */
 		printf("%s", ctime(&remote_time));