diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/invalid-preserve-dates.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/invalid-preserve-dates.test
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/invalid-preserve-dates.test
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# RUN: not llvm-objcopy --preserve-dates - %t < %p/Inputs/alloc-symtab.o
+# CHECK: error: --preserve-dates requires a file
+
+# RUN: not llvm-objcopy --preserve-dates %p/Inputs/alloc-symtab.o - 
+# CHECK: error: --preserve-dates requires a file
diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/preserve-dates.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/preserve-dates.test
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/preserve-dates.test
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# RUN: llvm-objcopy %p/Inputs/alloc-symtab.o %t
+# RUN: test %t -nt %p/Inputs/alloc-symtab.o
+
+# RUN: llvm-objcopy %p/Inputs/alloc-symtab.o %t --preserve-dates
+# RUN: test ! %t -nt %p/Inputs/alloc-symtab.o
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/llvm-objcopy.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/llvm-objcopy.cpp
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/llvm-objcopy.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/llvm-objcopy.cpp
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "llvm/Option/ArgList.h"
 #include "llvm/Option/Option.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/Casting.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/Errc.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/Error.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/ErrorOr.h"
@@ -206,10 +207,13 @@
 /// format-agnostic modifications, i.e. preserving dates.
 static Error executeObjcopy(const CopyConfig &Config) {
   sys::fs::file_status Stat;
-  if (Config.PreserveDates)
+  if (Config.PreserveDates) {
+    if (Config.InputFilename == "-" || Config.OutputFilename == "-")
+      return createStringError(errc::invalid_argument,
+                               "--preserve-dates requires a file");
     if (auto EC = sys::fs::status(Config.InputFilename, Stat))
       return createFileError(Config.InputFilename, EC);
-
+  }
   if (Config.InputFormat == "binary") {
     auto BufOrErr = MemoryBuffer::getFile(Config.InputFilename);
     if (!BufOrErr)