diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 773f7e2a..41ae87cf 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 * Change to prevent another scheduled search when one of the same type is already running
 * Add custom show lists to home page
 * Change travis to new container builds for faster unit testing
+* Change values used for date sorting on home page and episode view for improved compatibility with posix systems
 
 
 ### 0.8.3 (2015-04-25 08:48:00 UTC)
diff --git a/gui/slick/interfaces/default/episodeView.tmpl b/gui/slick/interfaces/default/episodeView.tmpl
index a730397f..fc204e38 100644
--- a/gui/slick/interfaces/default/episodeView.tmpl
+++ b/gui/slick/interfaces/default/episodeView.tmpl
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
 		<tr id="show-${show_id}" class="$show_div" data-rawname="$cur_result['show_name']">
 			## forced to use a div to wrap airdate, the column sort went crazy with a span
 			<td align="center" class="nowrap">
-				<div class="${fuzzydate}">$sbdatetime.sbdatetime.sbfdatetime($cur_result['localtime']).decode($sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING)</div><span class="sort_data">$time.mktime($cur_result['localtime'].timetuple())</span>
+				<div class="${fuzzydate}">$sbdatetime.sbdatetime.sbfdatetime($cur_result['localtime']).decode($sickbeard.SYS_ENCODING)</div><span class="sort_data">$cur_result['localtime'].strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')</span>
 			</td>
 
 			<td class="tvShow"><a href="$sbRoot/home/displayShow?show=${cur_result['showid']}" data-name="$cur_result['data_show_name']">$cur_result['show_name']</a>
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@
                         #set $img_id = ' id="plot-%s"' % $show_id
                         #set $plot_class = ' plot-daybyday'
 
-							<div id="show-${show_id}" class="daybyday-show" data-name="$cur_result['data_show_name']" data-season="$cur_result['season']" data-episode="$cur_result['episode']" data-network="$cur_result['data_network']" data-time="$time.mktime($cur_result['localtime'].timetuple())" data-rawname="$cur_result['show_name']">
+							<div id="show-${show_id}" class="daybyday-show" data-name="$cur_result['data_show_name']" data-season="$cur_result['season']" data-episode="$cur_result['episode']" data-network="$cur_result['data_network']" data-time="$cur_result['localtime'].strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')" data-rawname="$cur_result['show_name']">
 								<div class="poster">
 									<a${title_text} href="$sbRoot/home/displayShow?show=${cur_result['showid']}">
 									<img${img_id} class="img-responsive${plot_class}" alt="" src="$sbRoot/showPoster/?show=${cur_result['showid']}&amp;which=poster_thumb" /></a>
diff --git a/gui/slick/interfaces/default/home.tmpl b/gui/slick/interfaces/default/home.tmpl
index 1b10e29d..362341b0 100644
--- a/gui/slick/interfaces/default/home.tmpl
+++ b/gui/slick/interfaces/default/home.tmpl
@@ -288,16 +288,16 @@ $myShowList.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x.name, y.name))
 
     #set $progressbar_percent = $nom * 100 / $den
 
-#set $data_date = '6000000000.0'
+#set $data_date = '600000000000'
 #if $cur_airs_next:
-    #set $data_date = $time.mktime($sbdatetime.sbdatetime.convert_to_setting($network_timezones.parse_date_time($cur_airs_next,$curShow.airs,$curShow.network)).timetuple())
+    #set $data_date = $sbdatetime.sbdatetime.convert_to_setting($network_timezones.parse_date_time($cur_airs_next, $curShow.airs, $curShow.network)).strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')
 #else if None is not $display_status
     #if 'nded' not in $display_status and 1 == int($curShow.paused)
-        #set $data_date = '5000000500.0'
+        #set $data_date = '500000000500'
     #else if 'ontinu' in $display_status
-        #set $data_date = '5000000000.0'
+        #set $data_date = '500000000000'
     #else if 'nded' in $display_status
-        #set $data_date = '5000000100.0'
+        #set $data_date = '500000000100'
     #end if
 #end if
 	<div class="show" id="show$curShow.indexerid" data-name="$curShow.name" data-date="$data_date" data-network="$curShow.network" data-progress="$progressbar_percent">
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ $myShowList.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x.name, y.name))
 	
     #if $cur_airs_next
     #set $ldatetime = $sbdatetime.sbdatetime.convert_to_setting($network_timezones.parse_date_time($cur_airs_next,$curShow.airs,$curShow.network))
-		<td align="center" class="nowrap"><div class="${fuzzydate}">$sbdatetime.sbdatetime.sbfdate($ldatetime)</div><span class="sort_data">$time.mktime($ldatetime.timetuple())</span></td>
+		<td align="center" class="nowrap"><div class="${fuzzydate}">$sbdatetime.sbdatetime.sbfdate($ldatetime)</div><span class="sort_data">$ldatetime.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')</span></td>
     #else:
 		<td align="center" class="nowrap"></td>
     #end if