diff --git a/src/ngAnimate/animateCss.js b/src/ngAnimate/animateCss.js
index 1039db3425df..496cf00141b7 100644
--- a/src/ngAnimate/animateCss.js
+++ b/src/ngAnimate/animateCss.js
@@ -792,7 +792,10 @@ var $AnimateCssProvider = ['$animateProvider', function($animateProvider) {
       function onAnimationProgress(event) {
         event.stopPropagation();
         var ev = event.originalEvent || event;
-        var timeStamp = ev.$manualTimeStamp || ev.timeStamp || Date.now();
+
+        // we now always use `Date.now()` due to the recent changes with
+        // event.timeStamp in Firefox, Webkit and Chrome (see #13494 for more info)
+        var timeStamp = ev.$manualTimeStamp || Date.now();
 
         /* Firefox (or possibly just Gecko) likes to not round values up
          * when a ms measurement is used for the animation */