diff --git a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCaching.Tests/ResponseCachingMiddlewareTests.cs b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCaching.Tests/ResponseCachingMiddlewareTests.cs
index 831e9ea67e..2fb9849993 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCaching.Tests/ResponseCachingMiddlewareTests.cs
+++ b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCaching.Tests/ResponseCachingMiddlewareTests.cs
@@ -632,22 +632,18 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCaching.Tests
         [Fact]
         public async Task FinalizeCacheHeadersAsync_AddsDate_IfNoneSpecified()
         {
-            var clock = new TestClock
-            {
-                UtcNow = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow
-            };
+            var utcNow = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
             var sink = new TestSink();
-            var middleware = TestUtils.CreateTestMiddleware(testSink: sink, options: new ResponseCachingOptions
-            {
-                SystemClock = clock
-            });
+            var middleware = TestUtils.CreateTestMiddleware(testSink: sink);
             var context = TestUtils.CreateTestContext();
+            // ResponseTime is the actual value that's used to set the Date header in FinalizeCacheHeadersAsync
+            context.ResponseTime = utcNow;
 
             Assert.True(StringValues.IsNullOrEmpty(context.HttpContext.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.Date]));
 
             await middleware.FinalizeCacheHeadersAsync(context);
 
-            Assert.Equal(HeaderUtilities.FormatDate(clock.UtcNow), context.HttpContext.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.Date]);
+            Assert.Equal(HeaderUtilities.FormatDate(utcNow), context.HttpContext.Response.Headers[HeaderNames.Date]);
             Assert.Empty(sink.Writes);
         }