diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 1e849fb56394c1d3284d6fb7ba12316cc6b0f320..030294f06982c89714f7ed88d0be525ac6a478ce 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ tf-apply:
   stage: build
   tags: [build]
   script:
-    - export BUILD_DATE=$(TZ=America/Chicago date +%Y%m%d)
+    - export BUILD_DATE=$(TZ=America/Chicago date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
     - export TF_VAR_internal_network="tf-clusternet-$BUILD_DATE"
     - export TF_VAR_external_network="tf-dmznet-$BUILD_DATE"
     - export TF_VAR_keypair_name="os-gen-keypair-$BUILD_DATE"