diff --git a/src/substrait/textplan/converter/CMakeLists.txt b/src/substrait/textplan/converter/CMakeLists.txt
index 6f67271e..5ee27539 100644
--- a/src/substrait/textplan/converter/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/substrait/textplan/converter/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+include(../../../../third_party/datetime.cmake)
+
 set(TEXTPLAN_SRCS
     InitialPlanProtoVisitor.cpp
     InitialPlanProtoVisitor.h
diff --git a/src/substrait/textplan/parser/CMakeLists.txt b/src/substrait/textplan/parser/CMakeLists.txt
index 4c89fa83..fcc01413 100644
--- a/src/substrait/textplan/parser/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/substrait/textplan/parser/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+include(../../../../third_party/datetime.cmake)
+
 add_subdirectory(grammar)
 
 add_library(
diff --git a/third_party/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/CMakeLists.txt
index 7b8d8e60..2124c76d 100644
--- a/third_party/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/third_party/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ if(NOT ${ABSL_INCLUDED_WITH_PROTOBUF})
   add_subdirectory(abseil-cpp)
 endif()
 
-set(BUILD_TZ_LIB ON)
-add_subdirectory(datetime)
+include(datetime.cmake)
 
 add_subdirectory(fmt)
 add_subdirectory(googletest)
diff --git a/third_party/datetime b/third_party/datetime
deleted file mode 160000
index cc4685a2..00000000
--- a/third_party/datetime
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit cc4685a21e4a4fdae707ad1233c61bbaff241f93
diff --git a/third_party/datetime.cmake b/third_party/datetime.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f96aa06c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/datetime.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+include_guard(GLOBAL)
+
+set (BUILD_TZ_LIB ON CACHE BOOL "timezone library is a dependency" FORCE)
+include(FetchContent)
+FetchContent_Declare(date_src
+        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date.git
+        GIT_TAG v3.0.1
+        )
+FetchContent_MakeAvailable(date_src)