diff --git a/alexa_remote_control.sh b/alexa_remote_control.sh
index bd4ad47..203bef5 100755
--- a/alexa_remote_control.sh
+++ b/alexa_remote_control.sh
@@ -562,12 +562,19 @@ if [ -z "${REFRESH_TOKEN}" ] ; then
 	rm -f "${TMP}/.alexa.postdata"
 	rm -f "${TMP}/.alexa.postdata2"
 else
-	${CURL} ${OPTS} -s -X POST --data "app_name=Amazon%20Alexa&requested_token_type=auth_cookies&domain=www.${AMAZON}&source_token_type=refresh_token" --data-urlencode "source_token=${REFRESH_TOKEN}" 	-H "x-amzn-identity-auth-domain: api.${AMAZON}" https://api.${AMAZON}/ap/exchangetoken/cookies | jq -r '.response.tokens.cookies | to_entries[] | .key as $domain | .value[] | map_values(if . == true then "TRUE" else . end) | .Expires |= ( strptime("%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z") | mktime | strftime("%s") ) | [(if .HttpOnly=="TRUE" then ("#HttpOnly_" + $domain) else $domain end), "TRUE", .Path, .Secure, .Expires, .Name, .Value] | @tsv' > ${COOKIE}
+	# ${CURL} ${OPTS} -s -X POST --data "app_name=Amazon%20Alexa&requested_token_type=auth_cookies&domain=www.${AMAZON}&source_token_type=refresh_token" --data-urlencode "source_token=${REFRESH_TOKEN}" 	-H "x-amzn-identity-auth-domain: api.${AMAZON}" https://api.${AMAZON}/ap/exchangetoken/cookies | jq -r '.response.tokens.cookies | to_entries[] | .key as $domain | .value[] | map_values(if . == true then "TRUE" elif . == false then "FALSE" else . end) | .Expires |= ( strptime("%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z") | mktime ) | [(if .HttpOnly=="TRUE" then ("#HttpOnly_" + $domain) else $domain end), "TRUE", .Path, .Secure, .Expires, .Name, .Value] | @tsv' > ${COOKIE}
+
+	# work around for cookies valid beyond 2038-01-19 on 32bit systems
+    ${CURL} ${OPTS} -s -X POST --data "app_name=Amazon%20Alexa&requested_token_type=auth_cookies&domain=www.${AMAZON}&source_token_type=refresh_token" --data-urlencode "source_token=${REFRESH_TOKEN}" -H "x-amzn-identity-auth-domain: api.${AMAZON}" https://api.${AMAZON}/ap/exchangetoken/cookies > ${COOKIE}.json
+	# replace expiration dates > 2037 before piping to JQ
+    sed -e "$(cat ${COOKIE}.json | jq -r '.response.tokens.cookies | to_entries[] | .key as $domain | .value[] | .Expires' | awk '$3 >= 2038 { print "s/"$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5"/"$1" "$2" "2037" "$4" "$5"/g" ;}')" ${COOKIE}.json |\
+     jq -r '.response.tokens.cookies | to_entries[] | .key as $domain | .value[] | map_values(if . == true then "TRUE" elif . == false then "FALSE" else . end) | .Expires |= ( strptime("%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z") | mktime ) | [(if .HttpOnly=="TRUE" then ("#HttpOnly_" + $domain) else $domain end), "TRUE", .Path, .Secure, .Expires, .Name, .Value] | @tsv' > ${COOKIE}
 
 	if [ -z "$(grep ".${AMAZON}.*at-acbde" ${COOKIE})" ] ; then
 		echo "ERROR: cookie retrieval with refresh_token didn't work"
 		exit 1
 	fi
+	rm -f ${COOKIE}.json
 fi
 
 #