diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5d52f9b1d98..cc253a4089b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha1",
  "tempfile",
  "textwrap 0.15.0",
- "time 0.3.9",
+ "time 0.3.16",
  "unindent",
  "unix_socket",
  "users",
@@ -1737,6 +1737,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "walkdir",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "serde"
+version = "1.0.147"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d193d69bae983fc11a79df82342761dfbf28a99fc8d203dca4c3c1b590948965"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "sha1"
 version = "0.10.1"
@@ -2008,21 +2014,32 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
-version = "0.3.9"
+version = "0.3.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c2702e08a7a860f005826c6815dcac101b19b5eb330c27fe4a5928fec1d20ddd"
+checksum = "0fab5c8b9980850e06d92ddbe3ab839c062c801f3927c0fb8abd6fc8e918fbca"
 dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "libc",
  "num_threads",
+ "serde",
+ "time-core",
  "time-macros",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "time-core"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2e153e1f1acaef8acc537e68b44906d2db6436e2b35ac2c6b42640fff91f00fd"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "time-macros"
-version = "0.2.4"
+version = "0.2.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "42657b1a6f4d817cda8e7a0ace261fe0cc946cf3a80314390b22cc61ae080792"
+checksum = "65bb801831d812c562ae7d2bfb531f26e66e4e1f6b17307ba4149c5064710e5b"
+dependencies = [
+ "time-core",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "typenum"
@@ -2470,7 +2487,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "file_diff",
  "filetime",
  "libc",
- "time 0.3.9",
+ "time 0.3.16",
  "uucore",
 ]
 
@@ -2949,7 +2966,7 @@ version = "0.0.14"
 dependencies = [
  "clap 3.1.18",
  "filetime",
- "time 0.3.9",
+ "time 0.3.16",
  "uucore",
  "winapi 0.3.9",
 ]
@@ -3116,7 +3133,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "os_display",
  "thiserror",
- "time 0.3.9",
+ "time 0.3.16",
  "uucore_procs",
  "walkdir",
  "wild",
diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 961bcbb203d..8baceac4cb5 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ wild = "2.0"
 # * optional
 itertools = { version="0.10.0", optional=true }
 thiserror = { version="1.0", optional=true }
-time = { version="<= 0.3", optional=true, features = ["formatting", "local-offset", "macros"] }
+time = { version="<= 0.4", optional=true, features = ["formatting", "local-offset", "macros"] }
 # * "problem" dependencies (pinned)
 data-encoding = { version="2.1", optional=true }
 data-encoding-macro = { version="0.1.12", optional=true }