diff --git a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Helper.java b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Helper.java
index bbd0f828..4e2dfb3c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Helper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Helper.java
@@ -25,15 +25,23 @@
 import org.reficio.p2.bundler.ArtifactBundlerInstructions;
 import org.reficio.p2.bundler.ArtifactBundlerRequest;
 import org.reficio.p2.bundler.impl.AquteHelper;
+import org.reficio.p2.logger.Logger;
 import org.reficio.p2.resolver.maven.Artifact;
 import org.reficio.p2.resolver.maven.ResolvedArtifact;
 import org.reficio.p2.utils.BundleUtils;
 import org.reficio.p2.utils.JarUtils;
 import org.reficio.p2.utils.Utils;
+import org.reficio.p2.utils.XmlUtils;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+
 /**
  * Glues together the following independent modules that know nothing about the
  * plugin and the p2-maven-plugin model:
@@ -200,11 +208,43 @@ private static String calculateSnapshotVersion(ResolvedArtifact resolvedArtifact
                 return version;
             }
         }
+        
         // attempt to take the proper snapshot version from the artifact's baseVersion
         String baseVersion = resolvedArtifact.getArtifact().getBaseVersion();
         if (isProperSnapshotVersion(baseVersion)) {
             return baseVersion;
         }
+        
+        // attempt to construct version from maven-metadata-local.xml
+        File mavenMetadataLocal = new File(resolvedArtifact.getArtifact().getFile().getParentFile(), "maven-metadata-local.xml");
+        if (mavenMetadataLocal.exists()) {
+        	try {
+	        	DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
+	        	        .newInstance();
+	        	DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
+	        	Document document = documentBuilder.parse(mavenMetadataLocal);
+	        	Node metadata = XmlUtils.getFirstChildNodeByName(document, "metadata");
+	        	Node versioning = XmlUtils.getFirstChildNodeByName(metadata, "versioning");
+	        	Node lastUpdated = XmlUtils.getFirstChildNodeByName(versioning, "lastUpdated");
+	        	String version = BundleUtils.INSTANCE.calculateBundleVersion(resolvedArtifact.getArtifact());
+	        	if (version.endsWith(Utils.JAR_SNAPSHOT_POSTFIX) || version.endsWith(Utils.OSGI_SNAPSHOT_POSTFIX)) {
+	        		version = version.substring(0, version.length() - Utils.JAR_SNAPSHOT_POSTFIX.length());
+	        		String lastUpdatedTrimmed = lastUpdated.getTextContent().trim();
+	        		if (lastUpdatedTrimmed.length() > 8) {
+		        		lastUpdatedTrimmed = lastUpdatedTrimmed.substring(0, 8) + "." + lastUpdatedTrimmed.substring(8);
+		        		version += "-" + lastUpdatedTrimmed;
+		        		version += "-1";
+	        		}
+	        	}
+	        	if (isProperSnapshotVersion(version))
+	        		return version;
+        	} catch (Exception e) {
+                Logger.getLog().warn(String.format("Could not extract version from Maven local metadata file %s", mavenMetadataLocal.getAbsolutePath()), e);
+        	}
+        	
+        }
+        
+        
         // otherwise manually add the SNAPSHOT postfix that will be automatically changed to timestamp
         if (!baseVersion.contains("SNAPSHOT")) {
             baseVersion += ".SNAPSHOT";
@@ -213,7 +253,9 @@ private static String calculateSnapshotVersion(ResolvedArtifact resolvedArtifact
     }
 
     public static boolean isProperSnapshotVersion(String version) {
-        return version.matches(".*[0-9\\.]{13,16}-[0-9]{3}");
+    	//matches e.g. 3.3.1-20190722.014326-123 or
+    	//1.0.1-20190721.031346-1
+        return version.matches(".*[0-9\\.]{13,16}-[0-9]+");
     }
 
     public static String calculateSourceSymbolicName(String symbolicName) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Validator.java b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Validator.java
index f1a3eddc..4926384b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Validator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/P2Validator.java
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ public static void validateBundleRequest(P2Artifact p2Artifact, ResolvedArtifact
 
     private static void validateGeneralConfig(P2Artifact p2Artifact) {
         if (p2Artifact.shouldIncludeTransitive() && !p2Artifact.getInstructions().isEmpty()) {
-            String message = "BND instructions are NOT applied to the transitive dependencies of ";
-            Logger.getLog().warn(String.format("%s %s", message, p2Artifact.getId()));
+            Logger.getLog().warn(String.format("BND instructions are NOT applied to the transitive dependencies of %s", p2Artifact.getId()));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/Utils.java b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/Utils.java
index 96c81a8f..474c6b7d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/Utils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/Utils.java
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 
 public class Utils {
 
-    private static final String JAR_SNAPSHOT_POSTFIX = "-SNAPSHOT";
-    private static final String OSGI_SNAPSHOT_POSTFIX = ".SNAPSHOT";
+    public static final String JAR_SNAPSHOT_POSTFIX = "-SNAPSHOT";
+    public static final String OSGI_SNAPSHOT_POSTFIX = ".SNAPSHOT";
     private static final String ECLIPSE_QUALIFIER_POSTFIX = ".qualifier";
     public static final String TYCHO_VERSION = "1.0.0";
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/XmlUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/XmlUtils.java
index f0f970f7..788e25d0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/XmlUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/reficio/p2/utils/XmlUtils.java
@@ -83,4 +83,20 @@ public static Element createElement(Document doc, Node parent, String tagName) {
 		parent.appendChild(e);
 		return e;
 	}
+	
+	public static Node getFirstChildNodeByName(Node parent, String childNodeName) {
+		if (parent == null)
+			return null;
+		NodeList childNodes = parent.getChildNodes();
+		for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
+			Node probeChild = childNodes.item(i);
+			if (probeChild == null)
+				continue;
+
+			if (probeChild.getNodeName().equals(childNodeName))
+				return probeChild;
+		}
+		return null;
+	}
+
 }