diff --git a/src/g3log/time.hpp b/src/g3log/time.hpp
index 89bd7e2..6227972 100644
--- a/src/g3log/time.hpp
+++ b/src/g3log/time.hpp
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ namespace g3 {
 
       
 
-   //  wrap for std::chrono::system_clock::now()
-   std::time_t systemtime_now();
+   //  custom wrap for std::chrono::system_clock::now()but this one 
+   // returns timespec struct instead which is what we use in g3log
+   struct timespec systemtime_now();
 
    // OSX, Windows needed wrapper for std::timespec_get(struct timespec *ts, int base)
    //   OSX and Windows also lacks the POSIX clock_gettime(int base, struct timespec *ts)
@@ -63,7 +64,6 @@ namespace g3 {
    * std::put_time. A possible fix if your c++11 library is not updated is to
    * modify this to use std::strftime instead */
    std::string localtime_formatted(const timespec& time_snapshot, const std::string& time_format) ;
-   std::string localtime_formatted(const std::time_t& time_snapshot, const std::string& time_format) ;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/time.cpp b/src/time.cpp
index 073526f..47fe8bd 100644
--- a/src/time.cpp
+++ b/src/time.cpp
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ namespace g3 {
 
 
 namespace g3 {
-
-   std::time_t systemtime_now() {
-      system_time_point system_now = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
-      return std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(system_now);
+   struct timespec systemtime_now() {
+      struct timespec ts;
+      timespec_get(&ts);
+      return ts;
    }
 
 
@@ -155,8 +155,6 @@ namespace g3 {
 
 
 
-
-
    std::string localtime_formatted(const timespec& time_snapshot, const std::string& time_format) {
       auto format_buffer = time_format;  // copying format string to a separate buffer
 
@@ -174,12 +172,7 @@ namespace g3 {
          // replacing "%f[3|6|9]" with sec fractional part value
          format_buffer.replace(pos, g3::internal::kFractionalIdentier.size() + padding, value);
       }
-
-      return localtime_formatted(time_snapshot.tv_sec, format_buffer);
-   }
-
-   std::string localtime_formatted(const std::time_t& time_snapshot, const std::string& time_format) {
-      std::tm t = localtime(time_snapshot); // could be const, but cannot due to VS2012 is non conformant for C++11's std::put_time (see above)
-      return g3::put_time(&t, time_format.c_str()); // format example: //"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S");
+      std::tm t = localtime(time_snapshot.tv_sec);   
+      return g3::put_time(&t, format_buffer.c_str()); // format example: //"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S");
    }
 } // g3