diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
index 7627abefa9..f166ac40c0 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ TARGET_VENDOR = "-poky"
 
 LOCALCONF_VERSION = "1"
 
+DISTRO_VERSION[vardepsexclude] = "DATE"
+SDK_VERSION[vardepsexclude] = "DATE"
+
 # Override these in poky based distros
 POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES = "largefile opengl ptest multiarch wayland"
 POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "packagegroup-core-boot"