diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-03-53-26.bpo-36205.AfkGRl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-03-53-26.bpo-36205.AfkGRl.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..50cda34fbbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-03-53-26.bpo-36205.AfkGRl.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix the rusage implementation of time.process_time() to correctly report the sum of the system and user CPU time.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Modules/timemodule.c b/Modules/timemodule.c
index bdc93a2b7ec..5e0010c8a81 100644
--- a/Modules/timemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/timemodule.c
@@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ _PyTime_GetProcessTimeWithInfo(_PyTime_t *tp, _Py_clock_info_t *info)
             return -1;
         }
 
-        _PyTime_t total = utime + utime;
+        _PyTime_t total = utime + stime;
         *tp = total;
         return 0;
     }