diff --git a/src/RunState.h b/src/RunState.h
index af710bf8ea..05ef5b2c63 100644
--- a/src/RunState.h
+++ b/src/RunState.h
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ extern void suspend_processing();
 extern void continue_processing();
 bool is_processing_suspended();
 
+[[deprecated("Remove with v8.1. Use run_state::current_pseudo directly, but you probably should not")]]
 extern double current_packet_timestamp();
 extern double current_packet_wallclock();
 
diff --git a/src/util.cc b/src/util.cc
index be452746cc..fb31e61317 100644
--- a/src/util.cc
+++ b/src/util.cc
@@ -1867,11 +1867,11 @@ double current_time(bool real) {
     iosource::PktSrc* src = iosource_mgr->GetPktSrc();
 
     if ( run_state::is_processing_suspended() )
-        return run_state::current_packet_timestamp();
+        return run_state::detail::current_pseudo;
 
     // We don't scale with pseudo_realtime here as that would give us a
     // jumping real-time.
-    return run_state::current_packet_timestamp() + (t - run_state::current_packet_wallclock());
+    return run_state::detail::current_pseudo + (t - run_state::current_packet_wallclock());
 }
 
 struct timeval double_to_timeval(double t) {