diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a670c59..ded843f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Fixed
+- The plugin sometimes produced references with a slightly incorrect date, which has been corrected.
 - Incorrect usage of background thread has been fixed to reduce probability of concurrency issues in context menu of annotations.
 
 ## [1.1.0] - 2023-07-30
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/dev/andrybak/intellij/copy_commit_reference/CopyCommitReference.kt b/src/main/kotlin/dev/andrybak/intellij/copy_commit_reference/CopyCommitReference.kt
index b063b5b..9b49d15 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/dev/andrybak/intellij/copy_commit_reference/CopyCommitReference.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/dev/andrybak/intellij/copy_commit_reference/CopyCommitReference.kt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ fun copyCommitReference(project: Project, listOfMetadata: List<VcsCommitMetadata
 }
 
 private fun commitReference(metadata: VcsCommitMetadata): String {
-	return commitReference(metadata.id.asString(), metadata.subject, Instant.ofEpochMilli(metadata.timestamp))
+	return commitReference(metadata.id.asString(), metadata.subject, Instant.ofEpochMilli(metadata.authorTime))
 }
 
 private fun commitReference(hash: String, subject: String, timestamp: Instant): String {