diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index cbc43176bd7..62bfa714d71 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "support/android-rs-glue"]
 	path = support/android-rs-glue
 	url = https://github.com/servo/android-rs-glue
+[submodule "support/time"]
+	path = support/time
+	url = https://github.com/servo/time
diff --git a/components/servo/.cargo/config b/components/servo/.cargo/config
index 5ad542ef4e2..102a11443bb 100644
--- a/components/servo/.cargo/config
+++ b/components/servo/.cargo/config
@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@
+# FIXME: Remove this next rustup. This is a temporary
+# hack to allow android cross compilation to work. When
+# this is removed, the support/time submodule can also
+# be removed!
+paths = [
+        "../../support/time"
+]
+
 [target.arm-linux-androideabi]
 linker = "../../support/android-rs-glue/apk-builder/target/apk-builder"
diff --git a/support/time b/support/time
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..b8c8f84262d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/time
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit b8c8f84262de6d412befabee4f62dbf8d4fe50be