diff --git a/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node.c b/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node.c
index 6d0c948..22e3803 100644
--- a/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node.c
+++ b/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node.c
@@ -909,6 +909,17 @@ ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_member_t
       NGX_HTTP_VHOST_TRAFFIC_STATUS_MEMBER_QUEUE,
       ngx_vts_member(stat_request_times) },
 
+    /*
+     * These two have no variable because there is nothing for one to read.
+     * A variable is answered from the server zone of the request, and the
+     * upstream times are written to the node of the peer that served it, in
+     * shm.c. On a server zone they are the zeroes the node was created with,
+     * so a variable named here would report 0 for every request forever.
+     *
+     * set_by_filter can name them because it is given the zone to read, and
+     * an upstream zone is one of the zones it can be given.
+     */
+
     { ngx_null_string, ngx_string("responseMsecCounter"), ngx_null_string,
       NGX_HTTP_VHOST_TRAFFIC_STATUS_MEMBER_COUNTER,
       ngx_vts_member(stat_upstream.response_time_counter) },
diff --git a/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_variables.c b/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_variables.c
index e6e434e..1e71078 100644
--- a/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_variables.c
+++ b/src/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_variables.c
@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_variable(ngx_http_request_t *r,
     ngx_slab_pool_t                           *shpool;
     ngx_rbtree_node_t                         *node;
     ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_t      *vtsn;
+    ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_member_t    *m;
     ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_loc_conf_t  *vtscf;
 
+    m = (ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_member_t *) data;
+
     vtscf = ngx_http_get_module_loc_conf(r, ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_module);
 
     ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_find_name(r, &dst);
@@ -54,16 +57,17 @@ ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_variable(ngx_http_request_t *r,
 
     vtsn = (ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_t *) &node->color;
 
-    if (data == offsetof(ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_t, stat_request_times)) {
+    if (m->kind == NGX_HTTP_VHOST_TRAFFIC_STATUS_MEMBER_QUEUE) {
 
         /* the queue is the value, there is no counter kept for it */
 
         value = (ngx_atomic_t) ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_time_queue_average(
-                                   &vtsn->stat_request_times, vtscf->average_method,
-                                   vtscf->average_period);
+                                   (ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_time_queue_t *)
+                                       ((char *) vtsn + m->offset),
+                                   vtscf->average_method, vtscf->average_period);
 
     } else {
-        value = *((ngx_atomic_t *) ((char *) vtsn + data));
+        value = *((ngx_atomic_t *) ((char *) vtsn + m->offset));
     }
 
     v->len = ngx_sprintf(p, "%uA", value) - p;
@@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_add_variables(ngx_conf_t *cf)
         }
 
         var->get_handler = ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_node_variable;
-        var->data = (uintptr_t) m->offset;
+        var->data = (uintptr_t) m;
     }
 
     return NGX_OK;