diff --git a/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml b/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
index 9e814cfd..c286d7f5 100644
--- a/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ tokio = { version = "0.2.13", default-features = false, features = [ "dns", "fs"
 url = { version = "2.1.1", default-features = false }
 uuid = { version = "0.8.1", default-features = false, optional = true, features = [ "std" ] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = [ "derive" ], optional = true }
-time = { version = "0.2.7", default-features = false, optional = true }
+time = { version = "0.2.7", optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = [ "raw_value" ], optional = true }
 
 # <https://github.com/jgallagher/rusqlite/tree/master/libsqlite3-sys>