diff --git a/common.mk.in b/common.mk.in
index 69542ba..8efdf0e 100644
--- a/common.mk.in
+++ b/common.mk.in
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ build: $(OUTPUTS)
 clean:
 	rm -rf $(OUTDIR)
 
-XSLTARGS = g_date=`date -I` g_time=`date +%H:%M:%S` \
-	g_pwd="$$(pwd)" g_root="$(ROOT)" g_outdir="$(OUTDIR)"
+XSLTARGS=g_date=`date -I` g_time=`date +%H:%M:%S`
+	g_datetime="`date --rfc-3339=seconds`" pwd="$$(pwd)" g_root="$(ROOT)"
 CLASSPATH = /users/www/saxon8/saxon8.jar
 
 $(OUTDIR)%.html: %.xml $(ROOT)/csc.dtd $(ROOT)/xsl/*.xsl $(ROOT)/events.xml $(ROOT)/news.xml directory.xml
diff --git a/xsl/atom.xsl b/xsl/atom.xsl
index 4297953..a22cd9d 100644
--- a/xsl/atom.xsl
+++ b/xsl/atom.xsl
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
     xmlns:csc="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:param name="g_datetime" required="yes" />
-<xsl:param name="g_time" required="yes" />
-<xsl:param name="g_pwd" required="yes" />
-<xsl:param name="g_root" required="yes" />
 
 <xsl:template match="//eventdefs">
     <xsl:call-template name="atom">
@@ -36,7 +33,7 @@
         <title>UW Computer Science Club <xsl:value-of select="$title"/></title>
         <link href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/{$feedfile}" rel="self"/>
         <link href="http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/"/>
-        <updated><xsl:value-of select="$g_date"/></updated>
+        <updated><xsl:value-of select="$g_datetime"/></updated>
         <id>urn:uuid:<xsl:value-of select="$uuid"/></id>
         <author>
         <name>University of Waterloo Computer Science Club</name>