diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 162006a2f9c77c..1ae67dfabca3a0 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -737,6 +737,16 @@ regen-all: regen-opcode regen-opcode-targets regen-typeslots regen-grammar regen
 ############################################################################
 # Special rules for object files
 
+DATE_FMT = %b %d %Y
+TIME_FMT = %H:%M:%S
+ifdef SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
+	BUILD_DATE ?= $(shell date -u -d "@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)" "+$(DATE_FMT)"  2>/dev/null || date -u -r "$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)" "+$(DATE_FMT)" 2>/dev/null || date -u "+$(DATE_FMT)")
+	BUILD_TIME ?= $(shell date -u -d "@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)" "+$(TIME_FMT)"  2>/dev/null || date -u -r "$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)" "+$(TIME_FMT)" 2>/dev/null || date -u "+$(TIME_FMT)")
+else
+	BUILD_DATE ?= $(shell date "+$(DATE_FMT)")
+	BUILD_TIME ?= $(shell date "+$(TIME_FMT)")
+endif
+
 Modules/getbuildinfo.o: $(PARSER_OBJS) \
 		$(OBJECT_OBJS) \
 		$(PYTHON_OBJS) \
@@ -744,6 +754,8 @@ Modules/getbuildinfo.o: $(PARSER_OBJS) \
 		$(MODOBJS) \
 		$(srcdir)/Modules/getbuildinfo.c
 	$(CC) -c $(PY_CORE_CFLAGS) \
+	      -DDATE="\"$(BUILD_DATE)\"" \
+	      -DTIME="\"$(BUILD_TIME)\"" \
 	      -DGITVERSION="\"`LC_ALL=C $(GITVERSION)`\"" \
 	      -DGITTAG="\"`LC_ALL=C $(GITTAG)`\"" \
 	      -DGITBRANCH="\"`LC_ALL=C $(GITBRANCH)`\"" \
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-25-10-35-49.bpo-29708.d97BIE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-25-10-35-49.bpo-29708.d97BIE.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..51b5ab5ac4f982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-25-10-35-49.bpo-29708.d97BIE.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Honor the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable during build to produce
+reproducible binaries. This means using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH value to
+compute values for the DATE and TIME variables, that will be used in
+Modules/getbuildinfo.c