diff --git a/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs b/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
index 1cb551fd2..e362329b3 100644
--- a/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
+++ b/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
@@ -36,23 +36,15 @@ pub mod options {
 
 static ARG_FILES: &str = "files";
 
-// Since touch's date/timestamp parsing doesn't account for timezone, the
-// returned value from time::strptime() is UTC. We get system's timezone to
-// localize the time.
-macro_rules! to_local(
-    ($exp:expr) => ({
-        let mut tm = $exp;
-        tm.tm_utcoff = time::now().tm_utcoff;
-        tm
-    })
-);
+fn to_local(mut tm: time::Tm) -> time::Tm {
+    tm.tm_utcoff = time::now().tm_utcoff;
+    tm
+}
 
-macro_rules! local_tm_to_filetime(
-    ($exp:expr) => ({
-        let ts = $exp.to_timespec();
-        FileTime::from_unix_time(ts.sec as i64, ts.nsec as u32)
-    })
-);
+fn local_tm_to_filetime(tm: time::Tm) -> FileTime {
+    let ts = tm.to_timespec();
+    FileTime::from_unix_time(ts.sec as i64, ts.nsec as u32)
+}
 
 fn get_usage() -> String {
     format!("{0} [OPTION]... [USER]", executable!())
@@ -161,7 +153,7 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> i32 {
         };
         (timestamp, timestamp)
     } else {
-        let now = local_tm_to_filetime!(time::now());
+        let now = local_tm_to_filetime(time::now());
         (now, now)
     };
 
@@ -249,7 +241,7 @@ fn parse_date(str: &str) -> FileTime {
     // not about to implement GNU parse_datetime.
     // http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=lib/parse-datetime.y
     match time::strptime(str, "%c") {
-        Ok(tm) => local_tm_to_filetime!(to_local!(tm)),
+        Ok(tm) => local_tm_to_filetime(to_local(tm)),
         Err(e) => panic!("Unable to parse date\n{}", e),
     }
 }
@@ -267,7 +259,7 @@ fn parse_timestamp(s: &str) -> FileTime {
     };
 
     match time::strptime(&ts, format) {
-        Ok(tm) => local_tm_to_filetime!(to_local!(tm)),
+        Ok(tm) => local_tm_to_filetime(to_local(tm)),
         Err(e) => panic!("Unable to parse timestamp\n{}", e),
     }
 }