diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index ccd14e0e30..b09a8d0523 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -8326,10 +8326,10 @@ XML
 		my %co = %{$commitlist[$i]};
 		my $commit = $co{'id'};
 		# we read 150, we always show 30 and the ones more recent than 48 hours
-		if (($i >= 20) && ((time - $co{'author_epoch'}) > 48*60*60)) {
+		if (($i >= 20) && ((time - $co{'committer_epoch'}) > 48*60*60)) {
 			last;
 		}
-		my %cd = parse_date($co{'author_epoch'}, $co{'author_tz'});
+		my %cd = parse_date($co{'committer_epoch'}, $co{'committer_tz'});
 
 		# get list of changed files
 		open my $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "diff-tree", '-r', @diff_opts,