diff --git a/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_rotate_logs.result b/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_rotate_logs.result
index 6314a9a61fb..013ba87ec0b 100644
--- a/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_rotate_logs.result
+++ b/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_rotate_logs.result
@@ -87,9 +87,7 @@ show binary logs;
 Log_name	File_size
 master-bin.000002	#
 master-bin.000003	#
-select @time_for_purge:=DATE_ADD(UPDATE_TIME, INTERVAL 1 SECOND)
-from information_schema.tables
-where TABLE_SCHEMA="test" and TABLE_NAME="t2";
+SELECT @time_for_purge:=DATE_ADD('tmpval', INTERVAL 1 SECOND);
 purge master logs before (@time_for_purge);
 show binary logs;
 Log_name	File_size
diff --git a/mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_rotate_logs.test b/mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_rotate_logs.test
index 2bad7b27272..6fc09c93fe6 100644
--- a/mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_rotate_logs.test
+++ b/mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_rotate_logs.test
@@ -112,14 +112,31 @@ source include/show_master_logs.inc;
 purge binary logs to 'master-bin.000002';
 source include/show_binary_logs.inc;
 
-# Calculate time to use in "purge master logs before" by taking
-# last modification time of t2 and adding 1 second
-# This is donw in order to handle the case where file system
-# time differs from mysqld's time
+# Set the purge time 1 second after the last modify time of master-bin.000002.
+let $MYSQLD_DATADIR= `select @@datadir`;
+--exec stat $MYSQLD_DATADIR/master-bin.000002 >$MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/rpl_rotate_logs.000002
+--exec echo > $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/rpl_rotate_logs.tmp
+perl;
+open F, $ENV{'MYSQLTEST_VARDIR'}.'/tmp/rpl_rotate_logs.000002' or die "Tmp file rpl_rotate_logs.000002 not found";
+open F2, ">>".$ENV{'MYSQLTEST_VARDIR'}.'/tmp/rpl_rotate_logs.tmp' or die "Tmp file rpl_rotate_logs.tmp not found";
+while (<F>)
+{
+  if (/Modify: ([^ ]*) ([^ ]*)\./)
+  {
+    printf F2 ("let \$tmpval = %s %s;",$1,$2);
+  }
+}
+close F;
+close F2;
+EOF
+
+--source $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/rpl_rotate_logs.tmp
+remove_file $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/rpl_rotate_logs.000002;
+remove_file $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/rpl_rotate_logs.tmp;
+
 --disable_result_log
-select @time_for_purge:=DATE_ADD(UPDATE_TIME, INTERVAL 1 SECOND)
-  from information_schema.tables
-    where TABLE_SCHEMA="test" and TABLE_NAME="t2";
+--replace_result $tmpval tmpval
+--eval SELECT @time_for_purge:=DATE_ADD('$tmpval', INTERVAL 1 SECOND)
 --enable_result_log
 
 purge master logs before (@time_for_purge);