diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 18650722f..c8acac83a 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+11 October 2016: Wouter
+	- Fix #1567: Change crit to err log level for gettimeofday failure.
+
 9 October 2016: Wouter
 	- Fix collision printout of nsec3 to print name, hash and reverse.
 
diff --git a/netio.c b/netio.c
index 6c4b395ba..58fd2e18b 100644
--- a/netio.c
+++ b/netio.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ netio_current_time(netio_type *netio)
 	if (!netio->have_current_time) {
 		struct timeval current_timeval;
 		if (gettimeofday(&current_timeval, NULL) == -1) {
-			log_msg(LOG_CRIT, "gettimeofday: %s, aborting.", strerror(errno));
+			log_msg(LOG_ERR, "gettimeofday: %s, aborting.", strerror(errno));
 			abort();
 		}
 		timeval_to_timespec(&netio->cached_current_time, &current_timeval);