diff --git a/src/basic/time-util.c b/src/basic/time-util.c
index f124e6f0162..0ab2a81059a 100644
--- a/src/basic/time-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/time-util.c
@@ -1046,7 +1046,8 @@ static const char* extract_multiplier(const char *p, usec_t *ret) {
                 { "y",       USEC_PER_YEAR   },
                 { "usec",    1ULL            },
                 { "us",      1ULL            },
-                { "µs",      1ULL            },
+                { "μs",      1ULL            }, /* U+03bc (aka GREEK SMALL LETTER MU) */
+                { "µs",      1ULL            }, /* U+b5 (aka MICRO SIGN) */
         };
 
         assert(p);
@@ -1224,7 +1225,8 @@ static const char* extract_nsec_multiplier(const char *p, nsec_t *ret) {
                 { "y",       NSEC_PER_YEAR   },
                 { "usec",    NSEC_PER_USEC   },
                 { "us",      NSEC_PER_USEC   },
-                { "µs",      NSEC_PER_USEC   },
+                { "μs",      NSEC_PER_USEC   }, /* U+03bc (aka GREEK LETTER MU) */
+                { "µs",      NSEC_PER_USEC   }, /* U+b5 (aka MICRO SIGN) */
                 { "nsec",    1ULL            },
                 { "ns",      1ULL            },
                 { "",        1ULL            }, /* default is nsec */
@@ -1701,9 +1703,9 @@ TimestampStyle timestamp_style_from_string(const char *s) {
         t = (TimestampStyle) string_table_lookup(timestamp_style_table, ELEMENTSOF(timestamp_style_table), s);
         if (t >= 0)
                 return t;
-        if (streq_ptr(s, "µs"))
+        if (STRPTR_IN_SET(s, "µs", "μs")) /* acccept both µ symbols in unicode, i.e. micro symbol + greek small letter mu. */
                 return TIMESTAMP_US;
-        if (streq_ptr(s, "µs+utc"))
+        if (STRPTR_IN_SET(s, "µs+utc", "μs+utc"))
                 return TIMESTAMP_US_UTC;
         return t;
 }
diff --git a/src/core/socket.c b/src/core/socket.c
index 8e7797139bf..e4c1f5a793f 100644
--- a/src/core/socket.c
+++ b/src/core/socket.c
@@ -3519,7 +3519,7 @@ SocketTimestamping socket_timestamping_from_string_harder(const char *p) {
          * too. */
         if (streq(p, "nsec"))
                 return SOCKET_TIMESTAMPING_NS;
-        if (STR_IN_SET(p, "usec", "µs"))
+        if (STR_IN_SET(p, "usec", "µs", "μs")) /* Accept both small greek letter mu + micro sign unicode codepoints */
                 return SOCKET_TIMESTAMPING_US;
 
         r = parse_boolean(p);
diff --git a/src/test/test-time-util.c b/src/test/test-time-util.c
index 235c6cf1642..a67bfc87342 100644
--- a/src/test/test-time-util.c
+++ b/src/test/test-time-util.c
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ TEST(parse_sec) {
         assert_se(u == 700 * USEC_PER_MSEC);
         assert_se(parse_sec("23us", &u) >= 0);
         assert_se(u == 23);
-        assert_se(parse_sec("23µs", &u) >= 0);
+        assert_se(parse_sec("23μs", &u) >= 0); /* greek small letter mu */
+        assert_se(u == 23);
+        assert_se(parse_sec("23µs", &u) >= 0); /* micro symbol */
         assert_se(u == 23);
         assert_se(parse_sec("infinity", &u) >= 0);
         assert_se(u == USEC_INFINITY);