diff --git a/esipy/__init__.py b/esipy/__init__.py
index 39d5b72..af717d8 100644
--- a/esipy/__init__.py
+++ b/esipy/__init__.py
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@
     pass
 
 
-__version__ = '0.1.0'
+__version__ = '0.1.1'
diff --git a/esipy/client.py b/esipy/client.py
index 8509984..4428a50 100644
--- a/esipy/client.py
+++ b/esipy/client.py
@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@
 from .cache import DummyCache
 
 from collections import namedtuple
+from datetime import datetime
 from email.utils import parsedate
 from pyswagger.core import BaseClient
 from requests import Request
 from requests import Session
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 
+
 import six
-import datetime
 
 
 class EsiClient(BaseClient):
@@ -135,10 +136,14 @@ def request(self, req_and_resp, raw_body_only=False, opt={}):
     def __cache_response(self, cache_key, res):
         if 'expires' in res.headers:
             # this date is ALWAYS in UTC (RFC 7231)
-            expire = datetime.datetime(
-                *parsedate(res.headers['expires'])[:6]
-            ).strftime('%s')
-            now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('%s')
+            #
+            epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1)
+            expire = (
+                datetime(
+                    *parsedate(res.headers['expires'])[:6]
+                ) - epoch
+            ).total_seconds()
+            now = (datetime.utcnow() - epoch).total_seconds()
             cache_timeout = int(expire) - int(now)
 
         else: