diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 96879ec..659a2d7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ select = [
 ignore = [
   # Allow non-abstract empty methods in abstract base classes
   "B027",
-  # Allow use of datetime with tz and date.today
-  "DTZ005", "DTZ011",
+  # Allow use of date.today
+  "DTZ011",
   # Remove flake8-errmsg since we consider they bloat the code and provide limited value
   "EM",
   # Allow boolean positional values in function calls, like `dict.get(... True)`
diff --git a/src/kolibri2zim/scraper.py b/src/kolibri2zim/scraper.py
index 412bcf4..e812305 100644
--- a/src/kolibri2zim/scraper.py
+++ b/src/kolibri2zim/scraper.py
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ def sanitize_inputs(self):
         channel_meta = self.db.get_channel_metadata(self.channel_id)
 
         # input  & metadata sanitation
-        period = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m")
+        period = datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y-%m")
         if self.fname:
             # make sure we were given a filename and not a path
             fname_path = Path(str(self.fname).format(period=period))