diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index d7479925cb..876c5a4547 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -342,6 +342,12 @@ typedef struct StatsData
 	SimpleStats lag;
 } StatsData;
 
+/*
+ * For displaying epoch timestamp, as some time functions may have
+ * another reference.
+ */
+pg_time_usec_t epoch_shift;
+
 /*
  * Struct to keep random state.
  */
@@ -3803,7 +3809,7 @@ doLog(TState *thread, CState *st,
 		{
 			/* print aggregated report to logfile */
 			fprintf(logfile, INT64_FORMAT " " INT64_FORMAT " %.0f %.0f %.0f %.0f",
-					agg->start_time,
+					agg->start_time + epoch_shift,
 					agg->cnt,
 					agg->latency.sum,
 					agg->latency.sum2,
@@ -3830,6 +3836,9 @@ doLog(TState *thread, CState *st,
 	}
 	else
 	{
+		/* switch to epoch for displaying the timestamp */
+		now += epoch_shift;
+
 		/* no, print raw transactions */
 		if (skipped)
 			fprintf(logfile, "%d " INT64_FORMAT " skipped %d " INT64_FORMAT " "
@@ -5775,6 +5784,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	char	   *env;
 
 	int			exit_code = 0;
+	struct timeval tv;
+
+	/* record shift between epoch and now() */
+	gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
+	epoch_shift = tv.tv_sec * 1000000 + tv.tv_usec - pg_time_now();
 
 	pg_logging_init(argv[0]);
 	progname = get_progname(argv[0]);