diff --git a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H
index 3a36340aaf..20e5cde3b1 100644
--- a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H
+++ b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/mapFields/setTimeIndex.H
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-    label sourceTimeIndex = 0;
+    label sourceTimeIndex = runTimeSource.timeIndex();
     instantList sourceTimes = runTimeSource.times();
     if (args.options().found("sourceTime"))
     {