diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index bcafdbd7..3aec4eac 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ contents are never required to be entirely resident in memory all at once.
 """
 
 [dependencies]
-filetime = "0.2.8"
+filetime = { version = "0.2.8", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3"
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ xattr = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 libc = "0.2"
 
 [features]
-default = ["xattr"]
+default = ["filetime", "xattr"]
diff --git a/src/entry.rs b/src/entry.rs
index 8f0b62ac..1b34ff48 100644
--- a/src/entry.rs
+++ b/src/entry.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use std::io::{self, Error, ErrorKind, SeekFrom};
 use std::marker;
 use std::path::{Component, Path, PathBuf};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "filetime")]
 use filetime::{self, FileTime};
 
 use crate::archive::ArchiveInner;
@@ -617,6 +618,7 @@ impl<'a> EntryFields<'a> {
             )
         })?;
 
+        #[cfg(feature = "filetime")]
         if self.preserve_mtime {
             if let Ok(mtime) = self.header.mtime() {
                 // For some more information on this see the comments in
diff --git a/tests/all.rs b/tests/all.rs
index 11103bd6..25920236 100644
--- a/tests/all.rs
+++ b/tests/all.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "filetime")]
 extern crate filetime;
 extern crate tar;
 extern crate tempfile;
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ use std::io::{self, Cursor};
 use std::iter::repeat;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "filetime")]
 use filetime::FileTime;
 use tar::{Archive, Builder, Entries, EntryType, Header, HeaderMode};
 use tempfile::{Builder as TempBuilder, TempDir};
@@ -686,6 +688,7 @@ fn empty_filename() {
     assert!(ar.unpack(td.path()).is_ok());
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "filetime")]
 #[test]
 fn file_times() {
     let td = t!(TempBuilder::new().prefix("tar-rs").tempdir());
@@ -702,6 +705,7 @@ fn file_times() {
     assert_eq!(atime.nanoseconds(), 0);
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "filetime")]
 #[test]
 fn zero_file_times() {
     let td = t!(TempBuilder::new().prefix("tar-rs").tempdir());