diff --git a/kingfisher_scrapy/spiders/united_kingdom_contracts_finder_base.py b/kingfisher_scrapy/spiders/united_kingdom_contracts_finder_base.py
index f97930d7..c24cd8f3 100644
--- a/kingfisher_scrapy/spiders/united_kingdom_contracts_finder_base.py
+++ b/kingfisher_scrapy/spiders/united_kingdom_contracts_finder_base.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from datetime import datetime
+
 import scrapy
 
 from kingfisher_scrapy.base_spiders import LinksSpider
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ def start_requests(self):
             until_date = self.until_date.strftime(self.date_format)
             url = f'{url}&publishedFrom={from_date}&publishedTo={until_date}'
         else:
-            until_date = self.get_default_until_date(self).strftime(self.date_format)
+            until_date = datetime.utcnow().strftime(self.date_format)
 
         yield scrapy.Request(url, meta={'file_name': f'{until_date}.json'})  # reverse chronological order