diff --git a/data/nemo-actions/extract_action_strings b/data/nemo-actions/extract_action_strings
index 025dcc436..96282a3b1 100755
--- a/data/nemo-actions/extract_action_strings
+++ b/data/nemo-actions/extract_action_strings
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Main:
 
                 It was generated by the extract_action_strings script on %s UTC.
 '''
-                """ % (dt.utcnow())
+                """ % (dt.now(datetime.UTC))
             outstring += "\n"
             for fn in action_files:
                 keyfile = GLib.KeyFile.new()
diff --git a/makepot b/makepot
index 10c62a242..4d9c06bbf 100755
--- a/makepot
+++ b/makepot
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 data/nemo-actions/extract_action_strings data/nemo-actions
 itstool -o nemo.pot data/nemo.xml.in
 xgettext -c --join-existing --from-code=UTF-8 --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --output=nemo.pot \
-    src/*.c libnemo-extension/*.c libnemo-private/*.c eel/*.c         \
-    data/nemo-actions/action_i18n_strings.py generate_additional_file
+    src/*.c libnemo-extension/*.c libnemo-private/*.c eel/*.c
 xgettext -c --join-existing  -L Glade gresources/*.glade --output=nemo.pot
 xgettext -c --join-existing  -L Glade gresources/*.ui --output=nemo.pot
 xgettext -c --join-existing  -L Glade action-layout-editor/*.glade --output=nemo.pot
-xgettext -c --join-existing  -L Python action-layout-editor/*.py --output=nemo.pot
+xgettext -c --join-existing  -L Python action-layout-editor/*.py data/nemo-actions/action_i18n_strings.py \
+    generate_additional_file --output=nemo.pot