diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/indexing/IndexWorkerThread.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/indexing/IndexWorkerThread.java
index 11f1fdcfb..ae72b7fa5 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/indexing/IndexWorkerThread.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/indexing/IndexWorkerThread.java
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ class IndexWorkerThread extends Thread{
 		this.indexer = indexer;
 		this.threadNum = threadNum;
 		this.distributing = distributing;
-		synchronized(this){
+		/*synchronized(this){
 			if(starttime == 0)
 				starttime = System.currentTimeMillis();
-		}
+		}*/
 	}
 	
 	public void addToQueue(Individual ind){
@@ -97,4 +97,12 @@ class IndexWorkerThread extends Thread{
 		}
 	}
 	
+	public static void resetCount(){
+		count = 0;
+	}
+	
+	public static void setStartTime(long startTime){
+		starttime = startTime;
+	}
+	
 }