diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6390382e2..55b611958 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-01-29  Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
+
+	* backend/mustek_scsi_pp.c: Use gettimeofday() instead of
+	ftime(). Bug #300482.
+
 2004-01-21  Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard@gjaeger.de>
 	* backend/test.c: reader_process terminates now, when running as
 	  thread.
diff --git a/backend/mustek_scsi_pp.c b/backend/mustek_scsi_pp.c
index cc5d3e555..c43d6aa29 100644
--- a/backend/mustek_scsi_pp.c
+++ b/backend/mustek_scsi_pp.c
@@ -57,10 +57,11 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 #include <sys/time.h>
-#include <sys/timeb.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 
+#include <time.h>
+
 #include "../include/sane/sane.h"
 #include "../include/sane/sanei.h"
 #include "../include/sane/saneopts.h"
@@ -81,11 +82,13 @@ static int mustek_scsi_pp_timeout = 5000;
 static int
 mustek_scsi_pp_get_time ()
 {
-  struct timeb tp;
+  struct timeval tv;
   int retval;
 
-  ftime (&tp);
-  retval = tp.time * 1000 + tp.millitm;
+  gettimeofday (&tv, 0);
+
+  retval = tv.tv_sec * 1000 + tv.tv_usec / 1000;
+
   return retval;
 }