diff --git a/src/authentic2_auth_oidc/utils.py b/src/authentic2_auth_oidc/utils.py
index e3518070e..71bbd35cb 100644
--- a/src/authentic2_auth_oidc/utils.py
+++ b/src/authentic2_auth_oidc/utils.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import json
 
 import requests
 
-from django.utils.timezone import UTC
+from django.utils.timezone import utc
 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ KEY_TYPES = {
 def parse_timestamp(tstamp):
     if not isinstance(tstamp, int):
         raise ValueError('%s' % tstamp)
-    return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(tstamp, UTC())
+    return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(tstamp, utc)
 
 
 class IDToken(str):
diff --git a/src/authentic2_idp_oidc/views.py b/src/authentic2_idp_oidc/views.py
index 5070cdcd8..e7a515587 100644
--- a/src/authentic2_idp_oidc/views.py
+++ b/src/authentic2_idp_oidc/views.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import base64
 import time
 
 from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseBadRequest, HttpResponseNotAllowed
-from django.utils.timezone import now, UTC
+from django.utils.timezone import now, utc
 from django.utils.http import urlencode
 from django.shortcuts import render
 from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ def authorize(request, *args, **kwargs):
             client=client, user=request.user, scopes=u' '.join(scopes),
             state=state, nonce=nonce, redirect_uri=redirect_uri,
             expired=start + datetime.timedelta(seconds=30),
-            auth_time=datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(last_auth['when'], UTC()),
+            auth_time=datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(last_auth['when'], utc),
             session_key=request.session.session_key)
         logger.info(u'sending code %s for scopes %s for service %s',
                     code.uuid, ' '.join(scopes),
diff --git a/tests/test_auth_oidc.py b/tests/test_auth_oidc.py
index dc2cee595..48dd341da 100644
--- a/tests/test_auth_oidc.py
+++ b/tests/test_auth_oidc.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from jwcrypto.jwt import JWT
 
 from httmock import urlmatch, HTTMock
 
-from django.utils.timezone import UTC
+from django.utils.timezone import utc
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.utils.timezone import now
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ def test_idtoken():
     assert token.iss == payload_decoded['iss']
     assert token.aud == payload_decoded['aud']
     assert token.nonce == payload_decoded['nonce']
-    assert token.iat == datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 21, 20, 42, 50, tzinfo=UTC())
-    assert token.exp == datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 21, 20, 59, 30, tzinfo=UTC())
+    assert token.iat == datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 21, 20, 42, 50, tzinfo=utc)
+    assert token.exp == datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 21, 20, 59, 30, tzinfo=utc)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture