diff --git a/libafl/Cargo.toml b/libafl/Cargo.toml
index ed37ce0fe4..02d9762715 100644
--- a/libafl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libafl/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ num_cpus = "1.0" # cpu count, for llmp example
 serial_test = "0.5"
 
 [dependencies]
+time = { version = "0.3.5", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 tuple_list = { version = "0.1.3" }
 hashbrown =  { version = "0.11", features = ["serde", "ahash-compile-time-rng"], default-features=false } # A faster hashmap, nostd compatible
 num-traits = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
diff --git a/libafl/src/bolts/mod.rs b/libafl/src/bolts/mod.rs
index 0c1f0c9221..68b2a9f939 100644
--- a/libafl/src/bolts/mod.rs
+++ b/libafl/src/bolts/mod.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ pub mod shmem;
 pub mod staterestore;
 pub mod tuples;
 
+use alloc::string::String;
 use core::time;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
 use std::time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
@@ -85,3 +86,9 @@ pub fn current_nanos() -> u64 {
 pub fn current_milliseconds() -> u64 {
     current_time().as_millis() as u64
 }
+
+/// Format a `Duration` into a HMS string
+pub fn format_duration_hms(duration: &time::Duration) -> String {
+    let secs = duration.as_secs();
+    format!("{}h-{}m-{}s", (secs / 60) / 60, (secs / 60) % 60, secs % 60)
+}
diff --git a/libafl/src/monitors/mod.rs b/libafl/src/monitors/mod.rs
index 476a4cb22a..7a7c47aa32 100644
--- a/libafl/src/monitors/mod.rs
+++ b/libafl/src/monitors/mod.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ use hashbrown::HashMap;
 #[cfg(feature = "introspection")]
 use alloc::string::ToString;
 
-use crate::bolts::current_time;
+use crate::bolts::{current_time, format_duration_hms};
 
 const CLIENT_STATS_TIME_WINDOW_SECS: u64 = 5; // 5 seconds
 
@@ -269,10 +269,10 @@ where
 
     fn display(&mut self, event_msg: String, sender_id: u32) {
         let fmt = format!(
-            "{}: [{} #{}] clients: {}, corpus: {}, objectives: {}, executions: {}, exec/sec: {}",
-            (current_time() - self.start_time).as_millis(),
+            "[{} #{}] run time: {}, clients: {}, corpus: {}, objectives: {}, executions: {}, exec/sec: {}",
             event_msg,
             sender_id,
+            format_duration_hms(&(current_time() - self.start_time)),
             self.client_stats().len(),
             self.corpus_size(),
             self.objective_size(),
diff --git a/libafl/src/monitors/multi.rs b/libafl/src/monitors/multi.rs
index c767800b4f..5f4dbab134 100644
--- a/libafl/src/monitors/multi.rs
+++ b/libafl/src/monitors/multi.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use core::{time, time::Duration};
 use alloc::string::ToString;
 
 use crate::{
-    bolts::current_time,
+    bolts::{current_time, format_duration_hms},
     monitors::{ClientStats, Monitor},
 };
 
@@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ where
         };
         let head = format!("{}{} {}", event_msg, pad, sender);
         let global_fmt = format!(
-            "[{}]  (GLOBAL) clients: {}, corpus: {}, objectives: {}, executions: {}, exec/sec: {}",
+            "[{}]  (GLOBAL) run time: {}, clients: {}, corpus: {}, objectives: {}, executions: {}, exec/sec: {}",
             head,
+            format_duration_hms(&(current_time() - self.start_time)),
             self.client_stats().len(),
             self.corpus_size(),
             self.objective_size(),
diff --git a/libafl/src/stages/sync.rs b/libafl/src/stages/sync.rs
index 69708e10f3..b3d29feef8 100644
--- a/libafl/src/stages/sync.rs
+++ b/libafl/src/stages/sync.rs
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ use crate::{
     Error,
 };
 
-#[cfg(feature = "introspection")]
-use crate::monitors::PerfFeature;
-
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct SyncFromDiskMetadata {
     pub last_time: SystemTime,