diff --git a/msnoise/_version.py b/msnoise/_version.py
index 69b912e..351ff9e 100644
--- a/msnoise/_version.py
+++ b/msnoise/_version.py
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ def get_git_version(abbrev=10, dirty=True, append_remote_tracking_branch=True):
                       "of installing msnoise.")
         import datetime
         day = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M")
-        return '0.0.0+%s+archive'%day
+        return '0.0.0+%sarchive'%day
 
     # pip uses its normalized version number (strict PEP440) instead of our
     # original version number, so we bow to pip and use the normalized version