diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bdee7dfa2a..631c60b03d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 Package: cassandra
 Architecture: all
 Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless | java7-runtime, adduser, libjna-java, python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0), ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: ntp
+Recommends: ntp | time-daemon
 Conflicts: apache-cassandra1
 Replaces: apache-cassandra1
 Description: distributed storage system for structured data