diff --git a/src/util/time.cpp b/src/util/time.cpp
--- a/src/util/time.cpp
+++ b/src/util/time.cpp
@@ -25,17 +25,6 @@
 //! For unit testing
 static std::atomic<int64_t> nMockTime(0);
 
-int64_t GetTime() {
-    int64_t mocktime = nMockTime.load(std::memory_order_relaxed);
-    if (mocktime) {
-        return mocktime;
-    }
-
-    time_t now = time(nullptr);
-    assert(now > 0);
-    return now;
-}
-
 bool ChronoSanityCheck() {
     // std::chrono::system_clock.time_since_epoch and time_t(0) are not
     // guaranteed to use the Unix epoch timestamp, prior to C++20, but in
@@ -81,9 +70,13 @@
     const std::chrono::seconds mocktime{
         nMockTime.load(std::memory_order_relaxed)};
 
-    return std::chrono::duration_cast<T>(
-        mocktime.count() ? mocktime
-                         : std::chrono::microseconds{GetTimeMicros()});
+    const auto ret{
+        mocktime.count()
+            ? mocktime
+            : std::chrono::duration_cast<T>(
+                  std::chrono::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch())};
+    assert(ret > 0s);
+    return ret;
 }
 template std::chrono::seconds GetTime();
 template std::chrono::milliseconds GetTime();
@@ -117,6 +110,10 @@
     return int64_t{GetSystemTime<std::chrono::seconds>().count()};
 }
 
+int64_t GetTime() {
+    return GetTime<std::chrono::seconds>().count();
+}
+
 std::string FormatISO8601DateTime(int64_t nTime) {
     struct tm ts;
     time_t time_val = nTime;