diff --git a/openldap2.changes b/openldap2.changes
index d2b9a6d..6e20edc 100644
--- a/openldap2.changes
+++ b/openldap2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Dec 10 09:46:56 UTC 2022 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- add reproducible.patch to avoid using compile-time specific date/time
+  constructs
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 26 05:16:18 UTC 2022 - William Brown <william.brown@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/openldap2.spec b/openldap2.spec
index e94685d..1e5198f 100644
--- a/openldap2.spec
+++ b/openldap2.spec
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Source21:       slapd-ldif-update-crc.sh
 Source22:       update-crc.sh
 Source23:       slapd.conf
 Source24:       slapd.conf.olctemplate
+Patch1:         reproducible.patch
 Patch3:         0003-LDAPI-socket-location.dif
 Patch5:         0005-pie-compile.dif
 Patch8:         0008-In-monitor-backend-do-not-return-Connection0-entries.patch
@@ -239,6 +240,7 @@ Servers
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -a 9 -n openldap-%{version_main}
+%patch1 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch5 -p1
 %patch8 -p1
diff --git a/reproducible.patch b/reproducible.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..006a7a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reproducible.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: openldap-2.6.3/build/mkversion
+===================================================================
+--- openldap-2.6.3.orig/build/mkversion
++++ openldap-2.6.3/build/mkversion
+@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static const char copyright[] =
+ "COPYING RESTRICTIONS APPLY\n";
+ 
+ $static $const char $SYMBOL[] =
+-"@(#) \$$PACKAGE: $APPLICATION $VERSION (" __DATE__ " " __TIME__ ") \$\n"
++"@(#) \$$PACKAGE: $APPLICATION $VERSION \$\n"
+ "\t$WHOWHERE\n";
+ 
+ __EOF__