diff --git a/test/Serilog.Tests/Formatting/Display/MessageTemplateTextFormatterTests.cs b/test/Serilog.Tests/Formatting/Display/MessageTemplateTextFormatterTests.cs
index fd1de16f0..c23298f34 100644
--- a/test/Serilog.Tests/Formatting/Display/MessageTemplateTextFormatterTests.cs
+++ b/test/Serilog.Tests/Formatting/Display/MessageTemplateTextFormatterTests.cs
@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ public void LowercaseFormatSpecifierIsSupportedForStrings()
         Assert.Equal("nick", sw.ToString());
     }
 
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(16)]
+    [InlineData(100)]
+    public void RendersTimestampFormatsOfDifferentLengths(int length)
+    {
+        var longFormatString = new string('-', length);
+        var formatter = new MessageTemplateTextFormatter($"{{Timestamp:{longFormatString}}}", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+        var evt = DelegatingSink.GetLogEvent(l => l.Information("{Name}", "Nick"));
+        var sw = new StringWriter();
+        formatter.Format(evt, sw);
+        Assert.Contains(longFormatString, sw.ToString());
+    }
+
     [Theory]
     [InlineData(Verbose, 1, "V")]
     [InlineData(Verbose, 2, "Vb")]