diff --git a/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp b/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp
index 2eda3ac01b9c6..e10de619c9d5f 100644
--- a/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp
+++ b/examples/embedding/embedding.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #include "common.h"
 #include "llama.h"
 
+#include <ctime>
+
 int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     gpt_params params;
     params.model = "models/llama-7B/ggml-model.bin";
diff --git a/examples/main/main.cpp b/examples/main/main.cpp
index ba153cb82dcf6..3e4b0034ee977 100644
--- a/examples/main/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/main/main.cpp
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <cmath>
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <cstring>
+#include <ctime>
 #include <fstream>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <string>
diff --git a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
index 38e3643b1ca5e..19449e16e4d54 100644
--- a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
+++ b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include "llama.h"
 
 #include <cmath>
+#include <ctime>
 
 std::vector<float> softmax(const std::vector<float>& logits) {
     std::vector<float> probs(logits.size());