diff --git a/make-linux.mk b/make-linux.mk
index cdfb52bab..eb77326ed 100644
--- a/make-linux.mk
+++ b/make-linux.mk
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ node/Salsa20.o node/SHA512.o node/C25519.o node/Poly1305.o: CXXFLAGS=-Wall -O2 -
 else
 	override DEFS+=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 	CFLAGS?=-O3 -fstack-protector
-	override CFLAGS+=-Wall -Wno-deprecated -Werror -fPIE -pthread $(INCLUDES) -DNDEBUG $(DEFS)
+	override CFLAGS+=-Wall -Wno-deprecated -fPIE -pthread $(INCLUDES) -DNDEBUG $(DEFS)
 	CXXFLAGS?=-O3 -fstack-protector
-	override CXXFLAGS+=-Wall -Wno-deprecated -Werror -Wno-unused-result -Wreorder -fPIE -std=c++11 -pthread $(INCLUDES) -DNDEBUG $(DEFS)
+	override CXXFLAGS+=-Wall -Wno-deprecated -Wno-unused-result -Wreorder -fPIE -std=c++11 -pthread $(INCLUDES) -DNDEBUG $(DEFS)
 	override LDFLAGS+=-pie -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now
 	STRIP?=strip
 	STRIP+=--strip-all
@@ -211,10 +211,10 @@ endif
 all:	one
 
 #ext/x64-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.o:
-#	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c ext/x64-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.s -o ext/x64-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.o
+#	$(CC) -c ext/x64-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.s -o ext/x64-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.o
 
 #ext/arm32-neon-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.o:
-#	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c ext/arm32-neon-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.s -o ext/arm32-neon-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.o
+#	$(CC) -c ext/arm32-neon-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.s -o ext/arm32-neon-salsa2012-asm/salsa2012.o
 
 one:	$(CORE_OBJS) $(ONE_OBJS) one.o
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o zerotier-one $(CORE_OBJS) $(ONE_OBJS) one.o $(LDLIBS)
diff --git a/osdep/OSUtils.hpp b/osdep/OSUtils.hpp
index 4b9ee8936..dff7df868 100644
--- a/osdep/OSUtils.hpp
+++ b/osdep/OSUtils.hpp
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
+#ifdef __LINUX__
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#endif
 #endif
 
 #include "../ext/json/json.hpp"
@@ -185,7 +188,6 @@ public:
 	 * @return Current time in milliseconds since epoch
 	 */
 	static inline uint64_t now()
-		throw()
 	{
 #ifdef __WINDOWS__
 		FILETIME ft;
@@ -198,33 +200,15 @@ public:
 		return ( ((tmp.QuadPart - 116444736000000000ULL) / 10000L) + st.wMilliseconds );
 #else
 		struct timeval tv;
+#ifdef __LINUX__
+		syscall(SYS_gettimeofday,&tv,0); /* fix for musl libc broken gettimeofday bug */
+#else
 		gettimeofday(&tv,(struct timezone *)0);
+#endif
 		return ( (1000ULL * (uint64_t)tv.tv_sec) + (uint64_t)(tv.tv_usec / 1000) );
 #endif
 	};
 
-	/**
-	 * @return Current time in seconds since epoch, to the highest available resolution
-	 */
-	static inline double nowf()
-		throw()
-	{
-#ifdef __WINDOWS__
-		FILETIME ft;
-		SYSTEMTIME st;
-		ULARGE_INTEGER tmp;
-		GetSystemTime(&st);
-		SystemTimeToFileTime(&st,&ft);
-		tmp.LowPart = ft.dwLowDateTime;
-		tmp.HighPart = ft.dwHighDateTime;
-		return (((double)(tmp.QuadPart - 116444736000000000ULL)) / 10000000.0);
-#else
-		struct timeval tv;
-		gettimeofday(&tv,(struct timezone *)0);
-		return ( ((double)tv.tv_sec) + (((double)tv.tv_usec) / 1000000.0) );
-#endif
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Read the full contents of a file into a string buffer
 	 *
diff --git a/selftest.cpp b/selftest.cpp
index 209fe2034..759f39c13 100644
--- a/selftest.cpp
+++ b/selftest.cpp
@@ -1077,6 +1077,7 @@ int main(int argc,char **argv)
 	*/
 
 	std::cout << "[info] sizeof(void *) == " << sizeof(void *) << std::endl;
+	std::cout << "[info] OSUtils::now() == " << OSUtils::now() << std::endl;
 	std::cout << "[info] hardware concurrency == " << std::thread::hardware_concurrency() << std::endl;
 	std::cout << "[info] sizeof(NetworkConfig) == " << sizeof(ZeroTier::NetworkConfig) << std::endl;