diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92d87b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "lib/whenever/vendor/gems/chronic"]
+	path = lib/whenever/vendor/gems/chronic
+	url = git://github.com/AaronH/chronic.git
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 9cd17dc..a0cb0a8 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ begin
     gemspec.email       = "javan@javan.us"
     gemspec.homepage    = "http://github.com/javan/whenever"
     gemspec.authors     = ["Javan Makhmali"]
-    gemspec.add_dependency 'chronic', '>= 0.2.3'
     gemspec.add_dependency 'activesupport', '>= 2.3.4'
     gemspec.add_development_dependency 'shoulda', '>= 2.1.1'
     gemspec.add_development_dependency 'mocha', '>= 0.9.5'
diff --git a/lib/whenever.rb b/lib/whenever.rb
index cf925c9..7914a5d 100644
--- a/lib/whenever.rb
+++ b/lib/whenever.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-require 'chronic'
 require 'active_support/all'
 
+# Bundling in http://github.com/AaronH/chronic because
+# it's compatible with Ruby 1.9.2 and the official 
+# gem isn't. I hope to remove this eventually.
+require 'whenever/vendor/gems/chronic/lib/chronic'
+
 require 'whenever/base'
 require 'whenever/job_list'
 require 'whenever/job'
diff --git a/lib/whenever/vendor/gems/chronic b/lib/whenever/vendor/gems/chronic
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..d027ad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/whenever/vendor/gems/chronic
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d027ad09333ac49e9eb368c659c5243b515a7694