diff --git a/rowers/management/commands/getblogposts.py b/rowers/management/commands/getblogposts.py
index be55701b..b5bd95be 100644
--- a/rowers/management/commands/getblogposts.py
+++ b/rowers/management/commands/getblogposts.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from simplejson.errors import JSONDecodeError
 
 from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
 from rowers.models import BlogPost
+from django.utils import timezone
 
 PY3K = sys.version_info >= (3, 0)
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
             for postdata in blogs_json[0:3]:
                 title = postdata['title']['rendered']
                 link = postdata['link']
-                date = datetime.date()
+                date = timezone.now()
 
                 blogpost = BlogPost(
                     link=link,