diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/tests/hitchreqs.txt b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/tests/hitchreqs.txt
index e4b91c96..b4c04c51 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/tests/hitchreqs.txt
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/tests/hitchreqs.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ psutil==4.0.0
 ptyprocess==0.5.1
 pykwalify==1.5.0
 python-build==0.2.13
-python-dateutil==2.5.0
+python-dateutil==2.4.2
 pyuv==1.2.0
 PyYAML==3.11
 pyzmq==15.2.0