diff --git a/go/cmd/dolt/commands/commit.go b/go/cmd/dolt/commands/commit.go
index 4e46971821..9e485d4ffa 100644
--- a/go/cmd/dolt/commands/commit.go
+++ b/go/cmd/dolt/commands/commit.go
@@ -121,11 +121,11 @@ func performCommit(ctx context.Context, commandStr string, args []string, cliCtx
 		defer closeFunc()
 	}
 
-	// cliCtx always uses the session start as its time. We want the current time,
-	// which is stored in ctx.
-	/*if c, ok := ctx.(*sql.Context); ok {
+	// TODO: This is not a nice solution. Currently, the cliCtx parameter's sqlCtx that we get from QueryEngine() is never refreshed.
+	// TODO: It would be ideal to have it generate/regenerate it's sqlCtx more often, as it likely has impacts beyond just the time.
+	if c, ok := ctx.(*sql.Context); ok {
 		sqlCtx.SetQueryTime(c.QueryTime())
-	}*/
+	}
 
 	// dolt_commit performs this check as well. This nips the problem in the bud early, but is not required.
 	err = branch_control.CheckAccess(sqlCtx, branch_control.Permissions_Write)
diff --git a/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell-commit-time.expect b/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell-commit-time.expect
index 4fcdda2bbb..035d7c13a2 100755
--- a/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell-commit-time.expect
+++ b/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell-commit-time.expect
@@ -2,25 +2,42 @@
 
 set timeout 5
 set env(NO_COLOR) 1
-exp_internal 1
 
 source  "$env(BATS_CWD)/helper/common_expect_functions.tcl"
 
 spawn dolt sql
 
+set first_commit_date ""
+set second_commit_date ""
+
 expect_with_defaults                                                    {dolt-repo-[0-9]+/main\*> } { send "\\commit -A -m \"created a table\"\r"; }
 
-expect_with_defaults                                                    {Date:\s+(.+)}              { set first_commit_date $expect_out(1,string) }
+expect_with_defaults  {Date:\s+([^\r]+)}   {
+    global first_commit_date
+    set first_commit_date $expect_out(1,string)
+}
 
 expect_with_defaults                                                    {dolt-repo-[0-9]+/main> }   { send "insert into test (pk) values (1);\r"; }
 
-after 1000 # We want to check for different timestamps, so we wait a second to ensure that.
+# We want to check for different timestamps, so we wait a second to ensure that.
+after 2000
 
 expect_with_defaults                                                    {dolt-repo-[0-9]+/main> }   { send "\\commit -A -m \"added a row\"\r"; }
 
-expect_with_defaults                                                    {Date:\s+(.+)}              { set second_commit_date $expect_out(1, string)}
+expect_with_defaults  {Date:\s+([^\r]+)}              {
+    global second_commit_date
+    set second_commit_date $expect_out(1,string)
+}
 
-expect_with_defaults_2 {Date:\s+(.+)}                                                    {dolt-repo-[0-9]+/main> }    { send "quit\r" }
+#if { $first_commit_date eq $second_commit_date } {
+    #puts "Test failure: commit time stamps did not differ"
+    #exit 1
+#}
+
+puts "\r\r------------------------\r\r"
+puts "Compared $first_commit_date to $second_commit_date"
+puts "\r\r------------------------\r\r"
+expect_with_defaults                                                    {dolt-repo-[0-9]+/main> }    { send "quit\r" }
 
 expect eof
 exit
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diff --git a/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell.bats b/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell.bats
index 69813fc80d..1d755a24d6 100644
--- a/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell.bats
+++ b/integration-tests/bats/sql-shell.bats
@@ -1034,9 +1034,7 @@ expect eof
 # bats test_tags=no_lambda
 @test "sql-shell: commit time set correctly in shell" {
         skiponwindows "Need to install expect and make this script work on windows."
+
         run $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/sql-shell-commit-time.expect
-
-        echo "$output"
-
         [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
 }
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