diff --git a/docs/conf.py.in b/docs/conf.py.in
index c326f2d1..dc721654 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py.in
+++ b/docs/conf.py.in
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # relative to the documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it
 # absolute, like shown here.
 #
-import datetime
+from datetime import datetime
 import os
 import sys