diff --git a/src/shared/mkfs-util.c b/src/shared/mkfs-util.c
index 0c086b8adf..67bfb45193 100644
--- a/src/shared/mkfs-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/mkfs-util.c
@@ -453,12 +453,24 @@ int make_filesystem(
 
                 if (sector_size > 0) {
                         if (strv_extend(&env, "MKE2FS_DEVICE_SECTSIZE") < 0)
-                                        return log_oom();
+                                return log_oom();
 
                         if (strv_extendf(&env, "%"PRIu64, sector_size) < 0)
                                 return log_oom();
                 }
 
+                /* e2fsprogs supports $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH since v1.47.1. For older versions, we need to set
+                 * $E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME. See the following:
+                 * https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs/commit/b6e2913061577ad981464e435026d71a48fd5caf
+                 * Note, $E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME and $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH are mostly equivalent, except for the
+                 * 0 value handling, where $E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME=0 is ignored and the current time is used,
+                 * but $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 sets 1970-01-01 as the timestamp. */
+                if (!secure_getenv("E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME")) { /* honor $E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME if already set */
+                        const char *e = secure_getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH");
+                        if (e && strv_extend_strv(&env, STRV_MAKE("E2FSPROGS_FAKE_TIME", e), /* filter_duplicates= */ false) < 0)
+                                return log_oom();
+                }
+
         } else if (streq(fstype, "btrfs")) {
                 argv = strv_new(mkfs,
                                 "-L", label,
diff --git a/test/units/TEST-58-REPART.sh b/test/units/TEST-58-REPART.sh
index bc0ee9f0c6..23548d9cea 100755
--- a/test/units/TEST-58-REPART.sh
+++ b/test/units/TEST-58-REPART.sh
@@ -1896,7 +1896,7 @@ testcase_luks2_integrity() {
 }
 
 testcase_ext_reproducibility() {
-    local defs imgs
+    local defs imgs ts
 
     # Online mode mounts the filesystem which updates inode timestamps non-deterministically
     if [[ "$OFFLINE" != "yes" ]]; then
@@ -1916,21 +1916,28 @@ Format=ext4
 EOF
 
     # Build the image twice with the same seed and verify they are identical
-    systemd-repart --offline="$OFFLINE" \
-                   --definitions="$defs" \
-                   --empty=create \
-                   --size=50M \
-                   --seed="$seed" \
-                   --dry-run=no \
-                   "$imgs/test1.img"
+    ts=$(date +%s)
+    env SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH="$ts" \
+        systemd-repart \
+        --offline="$OFFLINE" \
+        --definitions="$defs" \
+        --empty=create \
+        --size=50M \
+        --seed="$seed" \
+        --dry-run=no \
+        "$imgs/test1.img"
 
-    systemd-repart --offline="$OFFLINE" \
-                   --definitions="$defs" \
-                   --empty=create \
-                   --size=50M \
-                   --seed="$seed" \
-                   --dry-run=no \
-                   "$imgs/test2.img"
+    sleep 2
+
+    env SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH="$ts" \
+        systemd-repart \
+        --offline="$OFFLINE" \
+        --definitions="$defs" \
+        --empty=create \
+        --size=50M \
+        --seed="$seed" \
+        --dry-run=no \
+        "$imgs/test2.img"
 
     cmp "$imgs/test1.img" "$imgs/test2.img"
 }