diff --git a/components/newlib/platform_include/sys/time.h b/components/newlib/platform_include/sys/time.h
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+#pragma once
+/* Newlib sys/time.h defines timerisset, timerclear, timercmp, timeradd, timersub macros
+   for __CYGWIN__ and __rtems__. We want to define these macros in IDF as well.
+   Since we wish to use un-modified newlib headers until a patched newlib version is
+   available, temporarily define __rtems__ here before including sys/time.h.
+   __rtems__ is chosen instead of __CYGWIN__ since there are no other checks in sys/time.h
+   which depend on __rtems__.
+
+   Also, so that __rtems__ define does not affect other headers included from sys/time.h,
+   we include them here in advance (_ansi.h and sys/types.h).
+ */
+
+#include <_ansi.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#define __rtems__
+#include_next <sys/time.h>
+#undef __rtems__