diff --git a/pdist/pdist b/pdist/pdist
index 9372193..9318b3f 100755
--- a/pdist/pdist
+++ b/pdist/pdist
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ sub export_index
 			$type eq 'B' || $type eq 'C' ? $self->rdev :
 			'-'
 		),
-		$type eq 'F'||$type eq 'D' ? $self->mtime : '-',
+		$type eq 'F' || $type eq 'D' || $type eq 'L' ? $self->mtime : '-',
 	);
 }
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ sub import_index
 		$F[3],$F[4],	# uid,gid
 		($type eq 'B' || $type eq 'C' ? $F[5] : 0),	# rdev
 		($type eq 'F' ? $F[5] : 0 ),			# size
-		($type eq 'F'||$type eq 'D' ? $F[6] : 0 ),	# mtime
+		($type eq 'F'|| $type eq 'D' || $type eq 'L' ? $F[6] : 0 ),	# mtime
 		($type eq 'L' ? fn_unescape($F[5]) : ''),	# target
 
 	],
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ sub index_file_sort { return sort @_; }
 
 #---------------------------- lchown / mknod
 
-our ($machine,$SYS_lchown,$SYS_mknod);
+our ($machine,$SYS_lchown,$SYS_mknod,$lmtime_sub);
 chomp($machine=`uname -m`);
 if ($machine eq 'i686') {
 	$SYS_lchown=198;		# __NR_lchown32  in /usr/include/asm/unistd.h
@@ -325,6 +325,24 @@ if ($machine eq 'i686') {
 	warn "unknown machine type $machine: named pipes,character and block devices can't be created\n";
 }
 
+if ($machine eq 'x86_64') {
+	our $SYS_utimensat=280;			# /usr/include/asm/unistd_64.h
+	our $AT_FDCWD=-100;			# /usr/include/fcntl.h
+	our $UTIME_OMIT=(1<<30)-2;		# /usr/include/bits/stat.h
+	our $AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW=0x100;		# /usr/include/fcntl.h
+
+	$lmtime_sub=sub {
+		my ($path,$mtime)=@_;
+		my $tsa=pack 'qqqq',0,$UTIME_OMIT,$mtime,0;
+		syscall($SYS_utimensat,$AT_FDCWD,$path,$tsa,$AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) and die "$path: $!\n";
+	}
+} else {
+	$lmtime_sub=sub {
+		my ($path,$mtime)=@_;
+		warn "$path: don't known how to change symlink mtime on target architecture\n";
+	}
+}
+
 sub lchown
 {
 	my ($uid,$gid,$path)=@_;
@@ -453,6 +471,13 @@ sub fileop_ln_or_cp
 	}
 }
 
+sub fileop_lmtime {
+	my ($mtime,$path)=@_;
+	$fileop_debug and warn "lmtime $mtime $path\n";
+	$fileop_noop and return;
+	$lmtime_sub->($path,$mtime);
+}
+
 #--------------------------------------------
 
 sub index_wanted
@@ -723,11 +748,16 @@ sub prog_update
 					$quiet or warn "ln -s ".$st_want->target." $filename\n";
 					fileop_symlink($st_want->target,$filename);
 					fileop_lchown($st_want->uid,$st_want->gid,$filename);
+					fileop_lmtime($st_want->mtime,$filename);
 				} else {
 					if ($st_is->uid != $st_want->uid || $st_is->gid != $st_want->gid) {
 						$quiet or warn "lchown ".$st_want->uid.':'.$st_want->gid." $filename\n";
 						fileop_lchown($st_want->uid,$st_want->gid,$filename);
 					}
+					if ($st_is->mtime != $st_want->mtime) {
+						$quiet or warn "set mtime of $filename\n";
+						fileop_lmtime($st_want->mtime,$filename);
+					}
 				}
 			} elsif ($st_want->type eq 'P') {
 				if (!$st_is || $st_is->type ne 'P') {