diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 9d53cae62..eba667645 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ version = "0.0.1"
 authors = []
 
 [dependencies]
-getopts = "*"
-time = { version = "*", optional = true }
+getopts = "0.2.14"
+time = { version = "0.1.38", optional = true }
 data-encoding = { version = "^1.1", optional = true }
 
 [dependencies.libc]