diff --git a/actix-http/Cargo.toml b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
index 575a08a0e..d5a65b7b5 100644
--- a/actix-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ flate2 = { version="1.0.7", optional = true, default-features = false }
 # optional deps
 failure = { version = "0.1.5", optional = true }
 openssl = { version="0.10", optional = true }
+chrono = "0.4.6"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "0.2.2"
diff --git a/actix-http/src/cookie/builder.rs b/actix-http/src/cookie/builder.rs
index 2635572ab..71c9bd19a 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/cookie/builder.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/cookie/builder.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 
-use time::{Duration, Tm};
+use time::Tm;
+use chrono::Duration;
 
 use super::{Cookie, SameSite};
 
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ use super::{Cookie, SameSite};
 ///
 /// ```rust
 /// use actix_http::cookie::Cookie;
-/// use time::Duration;
+/// use chrono::Duration;
 ///
 /// # fn main() {
 /// let cookie: Cookie = Cookie::build("name", "value")
@@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ impl CookieBuilder {
     ///
     /// ```rust
     /// use actix_http::cookie::Cookie;
-    /// use time::Duration;
+    /// use chrono::Duration;
     ///
     /// # fn main() {
     /// let c = Cookie::build("foo", "bar")
diff --git a/actix-http/src/cookie/jar.rs b/actix-http/src/cookie/jar.rs
index b60d73fe6..8b67c37d8 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/cookie/jar.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/cookie/jar.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::mem::replace;
 
-use time::{self, Duration};
+use chrono::Duration;
 
 use super::delta::DeltaCookie;
 use super::Cookie;
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ impl CookieJar {
     ///
     /// ```rust
     /// use actix_http::cookie::{CookieJar, Cookie};
-    /// use time::Duration;
+    /// use chrono::Duration;
     ///
     /// # fn main() {
     /// let mut jar = CookieJar::new();
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ impl CookieJar {
     ///
     /// ```rust
     /// use actix_http::cookie::{CookieJar, Cookie};
-    /// use time::Duration;
+    /// use chrono::Duration;
     ///
     /// # fn main() {
     /// let mut jar = CookieJar::new();
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ mod test {
     #[cfg(feature = "secure-cookies")]
     fn delta() {
         use std::collections::HashMap;
-        use time::Duration;
+        use chrono::Duration;
 
         let mut c = CookieJar::new();
 
diff --git a/actix-http/src/cookie/mod.rs b/actix-http/src/cookie/mod.rs
index 0f5f45488..eef41a121 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/cookie/mod.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/cookie/mod.rs
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ use std::fmt;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
 use percent_encoding::{percent_encode, USERINFO_ENCODE_SET};
-use time::{Duration, Tm};
+use time::Tm;
+use chrono::Duration;
 
 pub use self::builder::CookieBuilder;
 pub use self::draft::*;
@@ -624,7 +625,7 @@ impl<'c> Cookie<'c> {
     ///
     /// ```rust
     /// use actix_http::cookie::Cookie;
-    /// use time::Duration;
+    /// use chrono::Duration;
     ///
     /// # fn main() {
     /// let mut c = Cookie::new("name", "value");
@@ -703,7 +704,7 @@ impl<'c> Cookie<'c> {
     ///
     /// ```rust
     /// use actix_http::cookie::Cookie;
-    /// use time::Duration;
+    /// use chrono::Duration;
     ///
     /// # fn main() {
     /// let mut c = Cookie::new("foo", "bar");
@@ -977,7 +978,8 @@ impl<'a, 'b> PartialEq<Cookie<'b>> for Cookie<'a> {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::{Cookie, SameSite};
-    use time::{strptime, Duration};
+    use time::strptime;
+    use chrono::Duration;
 
     #[test]
     fn format() {
diff --git a/actix-http/src/cookie/parse.rs b/actix-http/src/cookie/parse.rs
index ebbd6ffc9..cc042733e 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/cookie/parse.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/cookie/parse.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use std::fmt;
 use std::str::Utf8Error;
 
 use percent_encoding::percent_decode;
-use time::{self, Duration};
+use chrono::Duration;
 
 use super::{Cookie, CookieStr, SameSite};
 
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ where
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::{Cookie, SameSite};
-    use time::{strptime, Duration};
+    use time::strptime;
+    use chrono::Duration;
 
     macro_rules! assert_eq_parse {
         ($string:expr, $expected:expr) => {