diff --git a/container b/container
index c54d0242d..4e20a1256 100755
--- a/container
+++ b/container
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ import tempfile
 import time
 import urllib.parse
 
-from dateutil.parser import parse
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
 URLS = {
@@ -781,8 +780,9 @@ def _get_latest_image_timestamp(distribution):
     url = URLS[distribution]
     response = urlopen(url[0:url.rindex('/')])
     page_contents = response.read().decode()
-    str_time = re.findall(r'\d{2}-[A-Z][a-z]{2}-\d{4}', page_contents)[0]
-    return parse(str_time).timestamp()
+    str_time = re.findall(r'\d{2}-[A-Z][a-z]{2}-\d{4} \d{2}:\d{2}',
+                          page_contents)[0]
+    return datetime.datetime.strptime(str_time, '%d-%b-%Y %H:%M').timestamp()
 
 
 def _is_update_required(distribution):