diff --git a/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DataImporter.java b/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DataImporter.java
index 0f4427fdc97..e1a99d74fc3 100644
--- a/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DataImporter.java
+++ b/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DataImporter.java
@@ -340,9 +340,7 @@ public class DataImporter {
     setStatus(Status.RUNNING_DELTA_DUMP);
 
     try {
-      if (requestParams.commit) {
-        setIndexStartTime(new Date());
-      }
+      setIndexStartTime(new Date());
       docBuilder = new DocBuilder(this, writer, requestParams);
       docBuilder.execute();
       if (!requestParams.debug)