diff --git a/tarpc/Cargo.toml b/tarpc/Cargo.toml
index d968db1..cb64d2d 100644
--- a/tarpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tarpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ rand = "0.7"
 serde = { optional = true, version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 static_assertions = "1.1.0"
 tarpc-plugins = { path = "../plugins", version = "0.8" }
-tokio = { version = "0.3" }
+tokio = { version = "0.3", features = ["time"] }
 tokio-util = { optional = true, version = "0.4" }
 tokio-serde = { optional = true, version = "0.6" }