diff --git a/changelog.html b/changelog.html
index 7b9e2a7555..a766df6e1c 100644
--- a/changelog.html
+++ b/changelog.html
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Upcoming changes</a>
 <!-- Record your changes in the trunk here. -->
 <div id="trunk" style="display:none"><!--=TRUNK-BEGIN=-->
 <ul class=image>
+  <li class=bug>
+    Clock Difference broken on Manage Nodes page
+    (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-18671">issue 18671</a>)
   <li class=bug>
     Fixed another possible cause of an NPE from MatrixConfiguration.newBuild.
     (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-17728">issue 17728</a>)
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/Slave.java b/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/Slave.java
index fe06eb5807..bd0897ef21 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/Slave.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/Slave.java
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ public abstract class Slave extends Node implements Serializable {
          * Capture the time on the master when this object is sent to remote, which is when
          * {@link GetClockDifference1#writeReplace()} is run.
          */
-        private final long startTime = System.nanoTime();
+        private final long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
 
         public GetClockDifference3 call() {
             return new GetClockDifference3(startTime);
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ public abstract class Slave extends Node implements Serializable {
     }
 
     private static final class GetClockDifference3 implements Serializable {
-        private final long remoteTime = System.nanoTime();
+        private final long remoteTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
         private final long startTime;
 
         public GetClockDifference3(long startTime) {
@@ -475,8 +475,8 @@ public abstract class Slave extends Node implements Serializable {
         }
 
         private Object readResolve() {
-            long endTime = System.nanoTime();
-            return new ClockDifference(TimeUnit2.NANOSECONDS.toMillis((startTime + endTime)/2-remoteTime));
+            long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+            return new ClockDifference((startTime + endTime)/2-remoteTime);
         }
     }