diff --git a/docs/examples/progressfunc.c b/docs/examples/progressfunc.c
index 52a3c0834..51d75366c 100644
--- a/docs/examples/progressfunc.c
+++ b/docs/examples/progressfunc.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -27,11 +27,25 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <curl/curl.h>
 
-#define STOP_DOWNLOAD_AFTER_THIS_MANY_BYTES         6000
+#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x073d00
+/* In libcurl 7.61.0, support was added for extracting the time in plain
+   microseconds. Older libcurl versions are stuck in using 'double' for this
+   information so we complicate this example a bit by supporting either
+   approach. */
+#define TIME_IN_US 1 /* microseconds */
+#define TIMETYPE curl_off_t
+#define TIMEOPT CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME_T
 #define MINIMAL_PROGRESS_FUNCTIONALITY_INTERVAL     3000000
+#else
+#define TIMETYPE double
+#define TIMEOPT CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME
+#define MINIMAL_PROGRESS_FUNCTIONALITY_INTERVAL     3
+#endif
+
+#define STOP_DOWNLOAD_AFTER_THIS_MANY_BYTES         6000
 
 struct myprogress {
-  curl_off_t lastruntime;
+  TIMETYPE lastruntime; /* type depends on version, see above */
   CURL *curl;
 };
 
@@ -42,17 +56,21 @@ static int xferinfo(void *p,
 {
   struct myprogress *myp = (struct myprogress *)p;
   CURL *curl = myp->curl;
-  curl_off_t curtime = 0;
+  TIMETYPE curtime = 0;
 
-  curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME_T, &curtime);
+  curl_easy_getinfo(curl, TIMEOPT, &curtime);
 
   /* under certain circumstances it may be desirable for certain functionality
      to only run every N seconds, in order to do this the transaction time can
      be used */
   if((curtime - myp->lastruntime) >= MINIMAL_PROGRESS_FUNCTIONALITY_INTERVAL) {
     myp->lastruntime = curtime;
+#ifdef TIME_IN_US
     fprintf(stderr, "TOTAL TIME: %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T ".%06ld\r\n",
             (curtime / 1000000), (long)(curtime % 1000000));
+#else
+    fprintf(stderr, "TOTAL TIME: %f \r\n", curtime);
+#endif
   }
 
   fprintf(stderr, "UP: %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T " of %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T
@@ -65,6 +83,7 @@ static int xferinfo(void *p,
   return 0;
 }
 
+#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM < 0x072000
 /* for libcurl older than 7.32.0 (CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION) */
 static int older_progress(void *p,
                           double dltotal, double dlnow,
@@ -76,7 +95,7 @@ static int older_progress(void *p,
                   (curl_off_t)ultotal,
                   (curl_off_t)ulnow);
 }
-
+#endif
 
 int main(void)
 {
@@ -91,10 +110,6 @@ int main(void)
 
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/");
 
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, older_progress);
-    /* pass the struct pointer into the progress function */
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA, &prog);
-
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x072000
     /* xferinfo was introduced in 7.32.0, no earlier libcurl versions will
        compile as they won't have the symbols around.
@@ -110,6 +125,10 @@ int main(void)
     /* pass the struct pointer into the xferinfo function, note that this is
        an alias to CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA */
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_XFERINFODATA, &prog);
+#else
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, older_progress);
+    /* pass the struct pointer into the progress function */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA, &prog);
 #endif
 
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0L);