diff --git a/alexa_remote_control.sh b/alexa_remote_control.sh
index 93b1953..7275e79 100755
--- a/alexa_remote_control.sh
+++ b/alexa_remote_control.sh
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 #               line in /tmp/.alexa.devicelist.txt, e.g.: -d "This Device=A2TF17PFR55MTB=ce0123456789abcdef01=VOX"
 #               -lastalexa now returns this string. Make sure to put the device in double quotes!
 # 2022-02-04: v0.20d minor volume fix (write volume to volume cache when volume is changed)
+# 2022-06-29: v0.20e removed call to jq's strptime function, replaced with bash function using 'date' to convert to epoch
 #
 ###
 #
@@ -574,10 +575,24 @@ if [ -z "${REFRESH_TOKEN}" ] ; then
 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" 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
+	# workaround for cookies valid beyond 2038-01-19 on 32-bit systems
+	toEpoch() {
+		local x
+		while read x
+		do
+			echo "$x" | awk '{
+				if ($3 >= 2038) {
+					print "s/"$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5"/2147483647/g"
+				} else {
+					print "s/"$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5"/'"$(date -d "$x" -u +"%s")"'/g"
+				}
+			}'
+		done
+	}
+
 	${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 > ${COOKIE}.json
-	sed -e "$(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' > ${COOKIE}
+	sed -e "$(cat ${COOKIE}.json | ${JQ} -r '.response.tokens.cookies | to_entries[] | .key as $domain | .value[] | .Expires' | toEpoch)" ${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) | [(if .HttpOnly=="TRUE" then ("#HttpOnly_" + $domain) else $domain end), "TRUE", .Path, .Secure, .Expires, .Name, .Value] | @tsv' > ${COOKIE}
 
 	if [ -z "$(grep "\.${AMAZON}.*\sat-" ${COOKIE})" ] ; then
 		echo "ERROR: cookie retrieval with refresh_token didn't work"