diff --git a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H
index 20e5cde3b1..c5afed3e2f 100644
--- a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H
+++ b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-    label sourceTimeIndex = runTimeSource.timeIndex();
     instantList sourceTimes = runTimeSource.times();
+    label sourceTimeIndex = runTimeSource.timeIndex();
     if (args.options().found("sourceTime"))
     {
         if ((args.options()["sourceTime"]) == "latestTime")
@@ -13,3 +13,8 @@
             sourceTimeIndex = getTimeIndex(sourceTimes, sourceTime);
         }
     }
+    else
+    {
+        scalar sourceTime = runTimeTarget.time().value();
+        sourceTimeIndex = getTimeIndex(sourceTimes, sourceTime);
+    }