diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index a2b2937e0a5..a98b4a5db0b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -444,6 +444,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
                (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)
    HBASE-2851  Remove testDynamicBloom() unit test
                (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)
+   HBASE-2853  TestLoadIncrementalHFiles fails on TRUNK
          
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestLoadIncrementalHFiles.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestLoadIncrementalHFiles.java
index d5374d2e12c..e02d11a2fbd 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestLoadIncrementalHFiles.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestLoadIncrementalHFiles.java
@@ -175,10 +175,11 @@ public class TestLoadIncrementalHFiles {
   {
     HFile.Writer writer = new HFile.Writer(fs, path, BLOCKSIZE, COMPRESSION,
         KeyValue.KEY_COMPARATOR);
+    long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
     try {
       // subtract 2 since iterateOnSplits doesn't include boundary keys
       for (byte[] key : Bytes.iterateOnSplits(startKey, endKey, numRows-2)) {
-        KeyValue kv = new KeyValue(key, family, qualifier, key);
+        KeyValue kv = new KeyValue(key, family, qualifier, now, key);
         writer.append(kv);
       }
     } finally {