diff --git a/R/importRDB1.r b/R/importRDB1.r
index f222ad32f580f080e790c162fa932727f18fe144..a8bd41c1141f814b1d8dd47a9ca68989b5b9c0d0 100644
--- a/R/importRDB1.r
+++ b/R/importRDB1.r
@@ -43,12 +43,11 @@
 #' @export
 #' @import utils
 #' @import stats
+#' @import lubridate
 #' @importFrom dplyr left_join
 #' @importFrom readr read_lines
 #' @importFrom readr read_delim
 #' @importFrom readr problems
-#' @importFrom lubridate fast_strptime
-#' @importFrom lubridate parse_date_time
 #' @examples
 #' siteNumber <- "02177000"
 #' startDate <- "2012-09-01"
@@ -117,6 +116,11 @@ importRDB1 <- function(obs_url, asDateTime=TRUE, convertType = TRUE, tz=""){
 
   if(convertType){
     readr.data <- suppressWarnings(read_delim(doc, skip = (meta.rows+2),delim="\t",col_names = FALSE))
+  #defaults to time in seconds in readr 0.2.2.9??  
+    if(data.class(readr.data$X4)=="hms"){
+    td <- seconds_to_period(readr.data$X4[!is.na(readr.data$X4)])
+    readr.data$X4[!is.na(readr.data$X4)] <- sprintf('%02d:%02d:%02d', hour(td), minute(td), second(td))
+    }
   } else {
     readr.data <- read_delim(doc, skip = (meta.rows+2),delim="\t",col_names = FALSE, col_types = cols(.default = "c"))
   }
@@ -166,9 +170,8 @@ importRDB1 <- function(obs_url, asDateTime=TRUE, convertType = TRUE, tz=""){
         
         if(all(c(paste0(i,"_dt"),paste0(i,"_tm")) %in% header.names)){
           varname <- paste0(i,"_dateTime")
-
-          varval <- as.POSIXct(fast_strptime(paste(readr.data[,paste0(i,"_dt")],readr.data[,paste0(i,"_tm")]), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M", tz = "UTC"))
-          
+          varval <- parse_date_time(paste(readr.data[,paste0(i,"_dt")],readr.data[,paste0(i,"_tm")]), c("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S","%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"), tz = "UTC")
+        
           if(!all(is.na(varval))){
             readr.data[,varname] <- varval
             tz.name <- paste0(i,"_time_datum_cd")