diff --git a/src/cluster.c b/src/cluster.c
index a174a964..42c4acb9 100644
--- a/src/cluster.c
+++ b/src/cluster.c
@@ -1543,14 +1543,11 @@ void clusterRequestFailoverAuth(void) {
     clusterBuildMessageHdr(hdr,CLUSTERMSG_TYPE_FAILOVER_AUTH_REQUEST);
     totlen = sizeof(clusterMsg)-sizeof(union clusterMsgData);
     hdr->totlen = htonl(totlen);
-    hdr->time = mstime();
     clusterBroadcastMessage(buf,totlen);
 }
 
-/* Send a FAILOVER_AUTH_ACK message to the specified node.
- * Reqtime is the time field from the original failover auth request packet,
- * so that the receiver is able to check the reply age. */
-void clusterSendFailoverAuth(clusterNode *node, uint64_t reqtime) {
+/* Send a FAILOVER_AUTH_ACK message to the specified node. */
+void clusterSendFailoverAuth(clusterNode *node) {
     unsigned char buf[4096];
     clusterMsg *hdr = (clusterMsg*) buf;
     uint32_t totlen;
@@ -1559,7 +1556,6 @@ void clusterSendFailoverAuth(clusterNode *node, uint64_t reqtime) {
     clusterBuildMessageHdr(hdr,CLUSTERMSG_TYPE_FAILOVER_AUTH_ACK);
     totlen = sizeof(clusterMsg)-sizeof(union clusterMsgData);
     hdr->totlen = htonl(totlen);
-    hdr->time = reqtime;
     clusterSendMessage(node->link,buf,totlen);
 }
 
@@ -1592,7 +1588,7 @@ void clusterSendFailoverAuthIfNeeded(clusterNode *node, clusterMsg *request) {
         server.cluster_node_timeout * 2) return;
 
     /* We can vote for this slave. */
-    clusterSendFailoverAuth(node,request->time);
+    clusterSendFailoverAuth(node);
     server.cluster->last_vote_epoch = server.cluster->currentEpoch;
     node->slaveof->voted_time = server.unixtime;
 }
diff --git a/src/redis.h b/src/redis.h
index 5883bd38..995198f6 100644
--- a/src/redis.h
+++ b/src/redis.h
@@ -715,9 +715,6 @@ typedef struct {
     uint32_t totlen;    /* Total length of this message */
     uint16_t type;      /* Message type */
     uint16_t count;     /* Only used for some kind of messages. */
-    uint64_t time;      /* Time at which this request was sent (in milliseconds),
-                           this field is copied in reply messages so that the
-                           original sender knows how old the reply is. */
     uint64_t currentEpoch;  /* The epoch accordingly to the sending node. */
     uint64_t configEpoch;   /* The config epoch if it's a master, or the last epoch
                                advertised by its master if it is a slave. */