diff --git a/serverside/hs2-last-updated.ts b/serverside/hs2-last-updated.ts
index 2aba00e..5ed042e 100644
--- a/serverside/hs2-last-updated.ts
+++ b/serverside/hs2-last-updated.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 import { contentType } from "https://deno.land/std@0.202.0/media_types/mod.ts";
 import {
   DOMParser,
-  NodeList,
-  NodeType,
 } from "https://deno.land/x/deno_dom@v0.1.38/deno-dom-wasm.ts";
 import {
   Image,
@@ -20,29 +18,6 @@ import {
 // not sure how worthwhile this optimization is but
 const dom_parser = new DOMParser();
 
-const murica_short_date = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
-  month: "numeric",
-  day: "numeric",
-  year: "numeric",
-});
-
-function get_updates_for_date(
-  { date, ps }: { date: Date; ps: NodeList },
-): number {
-  let count = 0;
-
-  const looking_for = murica_short_date.format(date) + " - ";
-
-  ps.forEach((p) => {
-    if (
-      p.childNodes[0] && p.childNodes[0].nodeType == NodeType.TEXT_NODE &&
-      p.childNodes[0].textContent == looking_for
-    ) count++;
-  });
-
-  return count;
-}
-
 async function get_last_update_date(): Promise<
   { last_updated: Date; last_update_count: number } | string
 > {
@@ -55,26 +30,17 @@ async function get_last_update_date(): Promise<
     const doc = dom_parser.parseFromString(body, "text/html");
     if (!doc) return "couldn't parse the body into the DOM";
 
-    const ps = doc.querySelectorAll("p");
-    if (!ps) return "couldn't get the ps from the doc";
+    const time = doc.querySelector("time");
+    if (!time) return "couldn't get even a single time from the doc (bad!)";
 
-    if (!ps[0]) return "couldn't get even a single p from the doc (bad!)";
-
-    // should really enable strict indexing
-    const us_date_node = ps[0].childNodes[0];
-    if (!us_date_node || us_date_node.nodeType != NodeType.TEXT_NODE) {
-      return "couldn't get a date node from the log entry";
-    }
-
-    const us_date = us_date_node.textContent.replace(" - ", "");
-    // apparently doing new Date("10/8/2023") is implementation defined which is icky but it works with deno
-    const date = new Date(us_date);
-    if (Number.isNaN(date.valueOf())) {
-      return `got an invalid date :(. the text_content was '${us_date}'`;
-    }
+    const datetime = time.attributes.getNamedItem("datetime")?.value;
+    if (!datetime) return "time didn't have datetime attr??";
+    const date = new Date(datetime);
     return {
       last_updated: date,
-      last_update_count: get_updates_for_date({ date, ps }),
+      last_update_count:
+        doc.querySelectorAll(`time[datetime="${date.toISOString()}"]`)
+          .length,
     };
   } catch (e) {
     return `caught error: ${e}`;