diff --git a/usestats.pl b/usestats.pl
index ab0ec33..d614e56 100644
--- a/usestats.pl
+++ b/usestats.pl
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ if (!scalar(grep /$config{'charset'}/, @{$supported})) {
  $config{'charset'} = 'ISO-8859-1';
 };
 
-&Date_Init("TZ = $config{'tz'}");
+&Date_Init("setdate=now,$config{'tz'}");
 
 if ($options{'r'}) {
  @postings = @{&readdata($options{'r'})};