diff --git a/frontend/ui/widget/htmlboxwidget.lua b/frontend/ui/widget/htmlboxwidget.lua
index 9eadfd25c..ad15c99f2 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/widget/htmlboxwidget.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/widget/htmlboxwidget.lua
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ local GestureRange = require("ui/gesturerange")
 local InputContainer = require("ui/widget/container/inputcontainer")
 local Mupdf = require("ffi/mupdf")
 local Screen = Device.screen
+local TimeVal = require("ui/timeval")
 local UIManager = require("ui/uimanager")
 local logger = require("logger")
 local util  = require("util")
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ function HtmlBoxWidget:onHoldReleaseText(callback, ges)
         return false
     end
 
-    local hold_duration = UIManager:getTime() - self.hold_start_tv
+    local hold_duration = TimeVal.now() - self.hold_start_tv
 
     local page = self.document:openPage(self.page_number)
     local lines = page:getPageText()
diff --git a/frontend/ui/widget/textboxwidget.lua b/frontend/ui/widget/textboxwidget.lua
index 3bb1e8f1b..324327f9a 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/widget/textboxwidget.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/widget/textboxwidget.lua
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ local RenderText = require("ui/rendertext")
 local RightContainer = require("ui/widget/container/rightcontainer")
 local Size = require("ui/size")
 local TextWidget = require("ui/widget/textwidget")
+local TimeVal = require("ui/timeval")
 local UIManager = require("ui/uimanager")
 local Math = require("optmath")
 local logger = require("logger")
@@ -1858,7 +1859,7 @@ function TextBoxWidget:onHoldReleaseText(callback, ges)
         return false
     end
 
-    local hold_duration = UIManager:getTime() - self.hold_start_tv
+    local hold_duration = TimeVal.now() - self.hold_start_tv
 
     -- If page contains an image, check if Hold is on this image and deal
     -- with it directly