diff --git a/ipp-v3-java-data/pom.xml b/ipp-v3-java-data/pom.xml
index 615eeb8a..f9275435 100755
--- a/ipp-v3-java-data/pom.xml
+++ b/ipp-v3-java-data/pom.xml
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@
 			<artifactId>jaxb2-basics-runtime</artifactId>
 			<version>1.11.1</version>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>joda-time</groupId>
-			<artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
-			<version>2.1</version>
-		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
diff --git a/ipp-v3-java-data/src/main/java/com/intuit/sb/cdm/util/v3/DateAdapter.java b/ipp-v3-java-data/src/main/java/com/intuit/sb/cdm/util/v3/DateAdapter.java
index 08486c55..098cf783 100755
--- a/ipp-v3-java-data/src/main/java/com/intuit/sb/cdm/util/v3/DateAdapter.java
+++ b/ipp-v3-java-data/src/main/java/com/intuit/sb/cdm/util/v3/DateAdapter.java
@@ -15,14 +15,13 @@
  *******************************************************************************/
 package com.intuit.sb.cdm.util.v3;
 
+
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.Date;
 
 import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
 import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
 
-import org.joda.time.DateTime;
-import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
-import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;
 
 /**
  * Adapter for JAXB to bind xs:date type to java.util.Date rather than the
@@ -32,7 +31,8 @@ public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, Date> {
 	private static final int lengthOfDateFmtYYYY_MM_DD = 10;
 	private static final String INVALIDDATE = "9999-12-31";
 	private static final String datePattern = "(19|20)\\d\\d([- /.])(0[1-9]|1[012])\\2(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])";
-	private static final DateTimeFormatter formatter = ISODateTimeFormat.date();
+
+	private static final String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd";
 	
 	/**
 	 * Unmarshal a Date.
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ public String marshal(Date value) {
 			return null;
 		}
 		
-		return formatter.print(new DateTime(value));
+		return new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT).format(value);
 
 	}