diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c4bc28f62a..5697e3edb7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Tue Nov 10 11:25:29 2015  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* time.c (rb_timespec_now): added.
+
+	* time.c (rb_time_timespec_new): added.
+
 Tue Nov 10 06:17:17 2015  Eric Wong  <e@80x24.org>
 
 	* variable.c (rb_autoload_load): allow recursive calls
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dc7babe03a..704d58206d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
   class is already defined but its superclass does not match the given
   superclass, as well as definitions in ruby level.
 
+* rb_timespec_now() is added to fetch current datetime as struct timespec.
+
+* rb_time_timespec_new() is added to create a time object with epoch,
+  nanosecond, and UTC/localtime/time offset arguments.
+
 === Build system updates
 
 === Implementation changes
diff --git a/include/ruby/intern.h b/include/ruby/intern.h
index af6b75d6d4..3fb1637593 100644
--- a/include/ruby/intern.h
+++ b/include/ruby/intern.h
@@ -919,8 +919,10 @@ VALUE rb_mutex_unlock(VALUE mutex);
 VALUE rb_mutex_sleep(VALUE self, VALUE timeout);
 VALUE rb_mutex_synchronize(VALUE mutex, VALUE (*func)(VALUE arg), VALUE arg);
 /* time.c */
+void rb_timespec_now(struct timespec *);
 VALUE rb_time_new(time_t, long);
 VALUE rb_time_nano_new(time_t, long);
+VALUE rb_time_timespec_new(const struct timespec *, int);
 VALUE rb_time_num_new(VALUE, VALUE);
 struct timeval rb_time_interval(VALUE num);
 struct timeval rb_time_timeval(VALUE time);
diff --git a/time.c b/time.c
index 11331a3147..aad4cb4ad1 100644
--- a/time.c
+++ b/time.c
@@ -1892,6 +1892,25 @@ timew2timespec_exact(wideval_t timew, struct timespec *ts)
     return ts;
 }
 
+void
+rb_timespec_now(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+#ifdef HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME
+    if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, ts) == -1) {
+	rb_sys_fail("clock_gettime");
+    }
+#else
+    {
+        struct timeval tv;
+        if (gettimeofday(&tv, 0) < 0) {
+            rb_sys_fail("gettimeofday");
+        }
+        ts->tv_sec = tv.tv_sec;
+        ts->tv_nsec = tv.tv_usec * 1000;
+    }
+#endif
+}
+
 static VALUE
 time_init_0(VALUE time)
 {
@@ -1903,20 +1922,7 @@ time_init_0(VALUE time)
     tobj->gmt = 0;
     tobj->tm_got=0;
     tobj->timew = WINT2FIXWV(0);
-#ifdef HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME
-    if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts) == -1) {
-	rb_sys_fail("clock_gettime");
-    }
-#else
-    {
-        struct timeval tv;
-        if (gettimeofday(&tv, 0) < 0) {
-            rb_sys_fail("gettimeofday");
-        }
-        ts.tv_sec = tv.tv_sec;
-        ts.tv_nsec = tv.tv_usec * 1000;
-    }
-#endif
+    rb_timespec_now(&ts);
     tobj->timew = timespec2timew(&ts);
 
     return time;
@@ -2299,12 +2305,41 @@ rb_time_new(time_t sec, long usec)
     return time_new_timew(rb_cTime, timew);
 }
 
+/* returns localtime time object */
 VALUE
 rb_time_nano_new(time_t sec, long nsec)
 {
     return time_new_timew(rb_cTime, nsec2timew(sec, nsec));
 }
 
+/**
+ * Returns a time object with UTC/localtime/fixed offset
+ *
+ * offset is -86400 < fixoff < 86400 or INT_MAX (UTC) or INT_MAX-1 (localtime)
+ */
+VALUE
+rb_time_timespec_new(const struct timespec *ts, int offset)
+{
+    struct time_object *tobj;
+    VALUE time = time_new_timew(rb_cTime, nsec2timew(ts->tv_sec, ts->tv_nsec));
+
+    if (-86400 < offset && offset <  86400) { /* fixoff */
+	GetTimeval(time, tobj);
+	TIME_SET_FIXOFF(tobj, INT2FIX(offset));
+    }
+    else if (offset == INT_MAX) { /* UTC */
+	GetTimeval(time, tobj);
+	TIME_SET_UTC(tobj);
+    }
+    else if (offset == INT_MAX-1) { /* localtime */
+    }
+    else {
+	rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "utc_offset out of range");
+    }
+
+    return time;
+}
+
 VALUE
 rb_time_num_new(VALUE timev, VALUE off)
 {