diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/har/harTracer.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/har/harTracer.ts
index 289a4f6d87..268da9e84d 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/server/har/harTracer.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/server/har/harTracer.ts
@@ -434,12 +434,6 @@ export class HarTracer {
     const pageEntry = this._createPageEntryIfNeeded(page);
     const request = response.request();
 
-    // Prefer "response received" time over "request sent" time
-    // for the purpose of matching requests that were used in a particular snapshot.
-    // Note that both snapshot time and request time are taken here in the Node process.
-    if (this._options.includeTraceInfo)
-      harEntry._monotonicTime = monotonicTime();
-
     harEntry.response = {
       status: response.status(),
       statusText: response.statusText(),
diff --git a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/modelUtil.ts b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/modelUtil.ts
index ba866ad7ca..94d42ba4a8 100644
--- a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/modelUtil.ts
+++ b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/modelUtil.ts
@@ -285,6 +285,10 @@ function adjustMonotonicTime(contexts: ContextEntry[], monotonicTimeDelta: numbe
       for (const frame of page.screencastFrames)
         frame.timestamp += monotonicTimeDelta;
     }
+    for (const resource of context.resources) {
+      if (resource._monotonicTime)
+        resource._monotonicTime += monotonicTimeDelta;
+    }
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/library/trace-viewer.spec.ts b/tests/library/trace-viewer.spec.ts
index c2634df148..69864380d8 100644
--- a/tests/library/trace-viewer.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/library/trace-viewer.spec.ts
@@ -1236,3 +1236,38 @@ test('should open snapshot in new browser context', async ({ browser, page, runA
   await expect(newPage.getByText('hello')).toBeVisible();
   await newPage.close();
 });
+
+function parseMillis(s: string): number {
+  const matchMs = s.match(/(\d+)ms/);
+  if (matchMs)
+    return +matchMs[1];
+  const matchSeconds = s.match(/([\d.]+)s/);
+  if (!matchSeconds)
+    throw new Error('Failed to parse to millis: ' + s);
+  return (+matchSeconds[1]) * 1000;
+}
+
+test('should show correct request start time', {
+  annotation: { type: 'issue', description: 'https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/31133' },
+}, async ({ page, runAndTrace, server }) => {
+  server.setRoute('/api', (req, res) => {
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
+      res.end('done');
+    }, 1100);
+  });
+  const traceViewer = await runAndTrace(async () => {
+    await page.goto(server.EMPTY_PAGE);
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+      return fetch('/api').then(r => r.text());
+    });
+  });
+  await traceViewer.selectAction('page.evaluate');
+  await traceViewer.showNetworkTab();
+  await expect(traceViewer.networkRequests).toContainText([/apiGET200text/]);
+  const line = traceViewer.networkRequests.getByText(/apiGET200text/);
+  const start = await line.locator('.grid-view-column-start').textContent();
+  const duration =  await line.locator('.grid-view-column-duration').textContent();
+  expect(parseMillis(duration)).toBeGreaterThan(1000);
+  expect(parseMillis(start)).toBeLessThan(1000);
+});