diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index d7479925cb..2be0c62cab 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -3778,7 +3778,6 @@ doLog(TState *thread, CState *st,
 	  StatsData *agg, bool skipped, double latency, double lag)
 {
 	FILE	   *logfile = thread->logfile;
-	pg_time_usec_t now = pg_time_now();
 
 	Assert(use_log);
 
@@ -3793,6 +3792,8 @@ doLog(TState *thread, CState *st,
 	/* should we aggregate the results or not? */
 	if (agg_interval > 0)
 	{
+		pg_time_usec_t now = pg_time_now();
+
 		/*
 		 * Loop until we reach the interval of the current moment, and print
 		 * any empty intervals in between (this may happen with very low tps,
@@ -3830,16 +3831,21 @@ doLog(TState *thread, CState *st,
 	}
 	else
 	{
+		struct timeval tv;
+
+		gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
+
 		/* no, print raw transactions */
 		if (skipped)
 			fprintf(logfile, "%d " INT64_FORMAT " skipped %d " INT64_FORMAT " "
 					INT64_FORMAT,
-					st->id, st->cnt, st->use_file, now / 1000000, now % 1000000);
+					st->id, st->cnt, st->use_file,
+					(long) tv.tv_sec, (long) tv.tv_usec);
 		else
 			fprintf(logfile, "%d " INT64_FORMAT " %.0f %d " INT64_FORMAT " "
 					INT64_FORMAT,
 					st->id, st->cnt, latency, st->use_file,
-					now / 1000000, now % 1000000);
+					(long) tv.tv_sec, (long) tv.tv_usec);
 		if (throttle_delay)
 			fprintf(logfile, " %.0f", lag);
 		fputc('\n', logfile);
@@ -5455,7 +5461,16 @@ printProgressReport(TState *threads, int64 test_start, pg_time_usec_t now,
 
 	if (progress_timestamp)
 	{
-		snprintf(tbuf, sizeof(tbuf), "%.3f s", PG_TIME_GET_DOUBLE(now));
+		/*
+		 * On some platforms the current system timestamp is available in
+		 * now_time, but rather than get entangled with that, we just eat the
+		 * cost of an extra syscall in all cases.
+		 */
+		struct timeval tv;
+
+		gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
+		snprintf(tbuf, sizeof(tbuf), "%ld.%03ld s",
+				 (long) tv.tv_sec, (long) (tv.tv_usec / 1000));
 	}
 	else
 	{