diff --git a/reproducible.patch b/reproducible.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b334026
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reproducible.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+https://github.com/apache/xmlgraphics-fop/pull/65
+partial fix for
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2854
+https://github.com/openSUSE/daps/issues/482
+
+commit 0d3f0f9a473aad6f315fd60cc6ed1447afb791ef
+Author: Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.de>
+Date:   Wed Dec 23 13:53:56 2020 +0100
+
+    FOP-2854: Allow to override CreationDate
+    
+    Allow to override build date with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
+    in order to make builds reproducible.
+    See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good
+    and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
+    for the definition of this variable.
+    
+    This patch was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.
+
+diff --git a/fop-core/src/main/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFMetadata.java b/fop-core/src/main/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFMetadata.java
+index 3af9af606..ff708e371 100644
+--- a/fop-core/src/main/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFMetadata.java
++++ b/fop-core/src/main/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFMetadata.java
+@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ public class PDFMetadata extends PDFStream {
+ 
+         //Set creation date if not available, yet
+         if (info.getCreationDate() == null) {
+-            Date d = new Date();
++            Date d = System.getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH") == null ?
++                new Date() :
++                new Date(1000 * Long.parseLong(System.getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH")));
+             info.setCreationDate(d);
+         }
+ 
diff --git a/xmlgraphics-fop.changes b/xmlgraphics-fop.changes
index 76f0edd..84280cd 100644
--- a/xmlgraphics-fop.changes
+++ b/xmlgraphics-fop.changes
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ Sun Jan 24 18:01:22 UTC 2021 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
   * Support OTF/TTF SVG fonts
   * Allow overpaint of PDF border
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jan 23 18:39:32 UTC 2021 - Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com>
+
+- Add reproducible.patch to override build date (boo#1047218)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun  4 05:13:44 UTC 2020 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/xmlgraphics-fop.spec b/xmlgraphics-fop.spec
index f51ad72..a78332f 100644
--- a/xmlgraphics-fop.spec
+++ b/xmlgraphics-fop.spec
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Patch4:         java8-compatibility.patch
 # PATCH-FEATURE-OPENSUSE reproducible-build-manifest.patch -- boo#1110024
 Patch5:         reproducible-build-manifest.patch
 Patch6:         fop-2.5-QDox-2.0.patch
+Patch7:         reproducible.patch
 BuildRequires:  ant >= 1.8.4
 BuildRequires:  apache-pdfbox >= 2.0
 BuildRequires:  commons-io >= 2.4
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ find -name "*.jar" | xargs -t rm
 %patch4 -p1
 %patch5 -p1
 %patch6 -p1
+%patch7 -p1
 
 # Replace keyword "VERSION" in XML files with the real one:
 for x in %{SOURCE10} %{SOURCE11} %{SOURCE12}; do