diff --git a/backend/local/lchtimes.go b/backend/local/lchtimes.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2684beee5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/local/lchtimes.go
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// +build windows plan9
+
+package local
+
+import (
+	"time"
+)
+
+const haveLChtimes = false
+
+// lChtimes changes the access and modification times of the named
+// link, similar to the Unix utime() or utimes() functions.
+//
+// The underlying filesystem may truncate or round the values to a
+// less precise time unit.
+// If there is an error, it will be of type *PathError.
+func lChtimes(name string, atime time.Time, mtime time.Time) error {
+	// Does nothing
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/backend/local/lchtimes_unix.go b/backend/local/lchtimes_unix.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c7f570eac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/local/lchtimes_unix.go
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// +build !windows,!plan9
+
+package local
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+const haveLChtimes = true
+
+// lChtimes changes the access and modification times of the named
+// link, similar to the Unix utime() or utimes() functions.
+//
+// The underlying filesystem may truncate or round the values to a
+// less precise time unit.
+// If there is an error, it will be of type *PathError.
+func lChtimes(name string, atime time.Time, mtime time.Time) error {
+	var utimes [2]unix.Timespec
+	utimes[0] = unix.NsecToTimespec(atime.UnixNano())
+	utimes[1] = unix.NsecToTimespec(mtime.UnixNano())
+	if e := unix.UtimesNanoAt(unix.AT_FDCWD, name, utimes[0:], unix.AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW); e != nil {
+		return &os.PathError{Op: "lchtimes", Path: name, Err: e}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/backend/local/local.go b/backend/local/local.go
index 8beb48b77..a17a0cf53 100644
--- a/backend/local/local.go
+++ b/backend/local/local.go
@@ -744,7 +744,12 @@ func (o *Object) ModTime() time.Time {
 
 // SetModTime sets the modification time of the local fs object
 func (o *Object) SetModTime(modTime time.Time) error {
-	err := os.Chtimes(o.path, modTime, modTime)
+	var err error
+	if o.translatedLink {
+		err = lChtimes(o.path, modTime, modTime)
+	} else {
+		err = os.Chtimes(o.path, modTime, modTime)
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}