diff --git a/include/mbedtls/ssl.h b/include/mbedtls/ssl.h
index 542340b..f4b96d8 100644
--- a/include/mbedtls/ssl.h
+++ b/include/mbedtls/ssl.h
@@ -1230,7 +1230,22 @@
 
 #if defined(MBEDTLS_SSL_SESSION_TICKETS) && defined(MBEDTLS_SSL_SRV_C) && \
     defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
-    /*! Time in milliseconds when the ticket was created. */
+    /*! When a ticket is created by a TLS server as part of an established TLS
+     *  session, the ticket creation time may need to be saved for the ticket
+     *  module to be able to check the ticket age when the ticket is used.
+     *  That's the purpose of this field.
+     *  Before creating a new ticket, an Mbed TLS server set this field with
+     *  its current time in milliseconds. This time may then be saved in the
+     *  session ticket data by the session ticket writing function and
+     *  recovered by the ticket parsing function later when the ticket is used.
+     *  The ticket module may then use this time to compute the ticket age and
+     *  determine if it has expired or not.
+     *  The Mbed TLS implementations of the session ticket writing and parsing
+     *  functions save and retrieve the ticket creation time as part of the
+     *  session ticket data. The session ticket parsing function relies on
+     *  the mbedtls_ssl_session_get_ticket_creation_time() API to get the
+     *  ticket creation time from the session ticket data.
+     */
     mbedtls_ms_time_t MBEDTLS_PRIVATE(ticket_creation_time);
 #endif
 
@@ -2573,6 +2588,34 @@
                                          mbedtls_ssl_ticket_write_t *f_ticket_write,
                                          mbedtls_ssl_ticket_parse_t *f_ticket_parse,
                                          void *p_ticket);
+
+#if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
+/**
+ * \brief Get the creation time of a session ticket.
+ *
+ * \note See the documentation of \c ticket_creation_time for information about
+ *       the intended usage of this function.
+ *
+ * \param session  SSL session
+ * \param ticket_creation_time  On exit, holds the ticket creation time in
+ *                              milliseconds.
+ *
+ * \return         0 on success,
+ *                 MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_BAD_INPUT_DATA if an input is not valid.
+ */
+static inline int mbedtls_ssl_session_get_ticket_creation_time(
+    mbedtls_ssl_session *session, mbedtls_ms_time_t *ticket_creation_time)
+{
+    if (session == NULL || ticket_creation_time == NULL ||
+        session->MBEDTLS_PRIVATE(endpoint) != MBEDTLS_SSL_IS_SERVER) {
+        return MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_BAD_INPUT_DATA;
+    }
+
+    *ticket_creation_time = session->MBEDTLS_PRIVATE(ticket_creation_time);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+#endif /* MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME */
 #endif /* MBEDTLS_SSL_SESSION_TICKETS && MBEDTLS_SSL_SRV_C */
 
 /**
diff --git a/library/ssl_ticket.c b/library/ssl_ticket.c
index 1ea7a50..5da3887 100644
--- a/library/ssl_ticket.c
+++ b/library/ssl_ticket.c
@@ -502,33 +502,22 @@
     }
 
 #if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
-#if defined(MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_3)
-    if (session->tls_version == MBEDTLS_SSL_VERSION_TLS1_3) {
-        /* Check for expiration */
-        mbedtls_ms_time_t ticket_age = mbedtls_ms_time() -
-                                       session->ticket_creation_time;
-        mbedtls_ms_time_t ticket_lifetime =
-            (mbedtls_ms_time_t) ctx->ticket_lifetime * 1000;
+    mbedtls_ms_time_t ticket_creation_time, ticket_age;
+    mbedtls_ms_time_t ticket_lifetime =
+        (mbedtls_ms_time_t) ctx->ticket_lifetime * 1000;
 
-        if (ticket_age < 0 || ticket_age > ticket_lifetime) {
-            ret = MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_SESSION_TICKET_EXPIRED;
-            goto cleanup;
-        }
+    ret = mbedtls_ssl_session_get_ticket_creation_time(session,
+                                                       &ticket_creation_time);
+    if (ret != 0) {
+        goto cleanup;
     }
-#endif /* MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_3 */
-#if defined(MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_2)
-    if (session->tls_version == MBEDTLS_SSL_VERSION_TLS1_2) {
-        /* Check for expiration */
-        mbedtls_time_t current_time = mbedtls_time(NULL);
 
-        if (current_time < session->start ||
-            (uint32_t) (current_time - session->start) > key->lifetime) {
-            ret = MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_SESSION_TICKET_EXPIRED;
-            goto cleanup;
-        }
+    ticket_age = mbedtls_ms_time() - ticket_creation_time;
+    if (ticket_age < 0 || ticket_age > ticket_lifetime) {
+        ret = MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_SESSION_TICKET_EXPIRED;
+        goto cleanup;
     }
-#endif /* MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_2 */
-#endif /* MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME */
+#endif
 
 cleanup:
 #if defined(MBEDTLS_THREADING_C)
diff --git a/library/ssl_tls12_server.c b/library/ssl_tls12_server.c
index e433627..38f322c 100644
--- a/library/ssl_tls12_server.c
+++ b/library/ssl_tls12_server.c
@@ -4282,6 +4282,9 @@
      * 10 .  9+n ticket content
      */
 
+#if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
+    ssl->session_negotiate->ticket_creation_time = mbedtls_ms_time();
+#endif
     if ((ret = ssl->conf->f_ticket_write(ssl->conf->p_ticket,
                                          ssl->session_negotiate,
                                          ssl->out_msg + 10,
diff --git a/library/ssl_tls13_server.c b/library/ssl_tls13_server.c
index fa1f478..ceb07ba 100644
--- a/library/ssl_tls13_server.c
+++ b/library/ssl_tls13_server.c
@@ -3140,10 +3140,6 @@
 
     MBEDTLS_SSL_DEBUG_MSG(2, ("=> prepare NewSessionTicket msg"));
 
-#if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
-    session->ticket_creation_time = mbedtls_ms_time();
-#endif
-
     /* Set ticket_flags depends on the advertised psk key exchange mode */
     mbedtls_ssl_tls13_session_clear_ticket_flags(
         session, MBEDTLS_SSL_TLS1_3_TICKET_FLAGS_MASK);
@@ -3278,6 +3274,9 @@
     MBEDTLS_SSL_CHK_BUF_PTR(p, end, 4 + 4 + 1 + ticket_nonce_size + 2);
 
     /* Generate ticket and ticket_lifetime */
+#if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
+    session->ticket_creation_time = mbedtls_ms_time();
+#endif
     ret = ssl->conf->f_ticket_write(ssl->conf->p_ticket,
                                     session,
                                     p + 9 + ticket_nonce_size + 2,