diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/core.recursive-event/output b/testing/btest/Baseline/core.recursive-event/output
index 8feeb4e0a5..5ce335085a 100644
--- a/testing/btest/Baseline/core.recursive-event/output
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/core.recursive-event/output
@@ -1,2 +1,22 @@
 ### BTest baseline data generated by btest-diff. Do not edit. Use "btest -U/-u" to update. Requires BTest >= 0.63.
-10
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+XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX 0 5
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+XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX 0 7
+XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX 1 8
+XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX 0 9
+XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX 1 10
+XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX 0 11
+XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXX 1 12
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+unique_nt 11
diff --git a/testing/btest/core/recursive-event.zeek b/testing/btest/core/recursive-event.zeek
index fc99638798..3583b369f6 100644
--- a/testing/btest/core/recursive-event.zeek
+++ b/testing/btest/core/recursive-event.zeek
@@ -1,32 +1,38 @@
-# @TEST-EXEC: zeek -b %INPUT 2>&1 | grep -v termination | sort | uniq | wc -l | awk '{print $1}' >output
+# @TEST-EXEC: zeek -b %INPUT >output
 # @TEST-EXEC: btest-diff output
 
 # In old version, the event would keep triggering endlessly, with the network
 # time not moving forward and Zeek not terminating.
-# 
-# Note that the output will not be 20 because we still execute two rounds
-# of events every time we drain and also at startup several (currently 3)
-# rounds of events drain with the same network_time.
 
 redef exit_only_after_terminate=T;
 
 global c = 0;
+global last_nt = 0.0;
+global unique_nt: set[double];
 
 event test()
         {
 	c += 1;
+	local nt = time_to_double(network_time());
+	if ( last_nt == 0.0 )
+		last_nt = nt;
 
-	if ( c == 20 ) 
+	add unique_nt[nt];
+
+	print fmt("%.5f %d %d", nt, nt != last_nt, c);
+	last_nt = nt;
+
+	if ( c == 20 )
 		{
+		print fmt("unique_nt %d", |unique_nt|);
 		terminate();
 		return;
 		}
-	
-        print network_time();
-        event test();
-        }
+
+	event test();
+	}
 
 event zeek_init()
-        {
-        event test();
-        }
+	{
+	event test();
+	}