diff --git a/lib/storage.js b/lib/storage.js
index 5448846f6..5b5aa0c5b 100644
--- a/lib/storage.js
+++ b/lib/storage.js
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ class Storage {
 
       this._sync_package_with_uplinks(name, data, options, function(err, result, uplink_errors) {
         if (err) return callback(err);
-        const whitelist = ['_rev', 'name', 'versions', 'dist-tags', 'readme'];
+        const whitelist = ['_rev', 'name', 'versions', 'dist-tags', 'readme', 'time'];
         for (let i in result) {
           if (whitelist.indexOf(i) === -1) {
             delete result[i];
@@ -541,6 +541,11 @@ class Storage {
           fetched: Date.now(),
         };
 
+        // added to fix verdaccio#73
+        if ('time' in upLinkResponse) {
+          packageInfo['time'] = upLinkResponse.time;
+        }
+
         for (let i in upLinkResponse.versions) {
            if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(upLinkResponse.versions, i)) {
             // this won't be serialized to json,
diff --git a/lib/storage/local/local-storage.js b/lib/storage/local/local-storage.js
index 0d1be2d82..ff37db17e 100644
--- a/lib/storage/local/local-storage.js
+++ b/lib/storage/local/local-storage.js
@@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ class LocalStorage {
         change = true;
       }
 
+      if ('time' in packageInfo) {
+        packageLocalJson.time = packageInfo.time;
+        change = true;
+      }
+
       if (change) {
         this.logger.debug('updating package info');
         this._writePackage(name, packageLocalJson, function(err) {