diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e3c9b0b6d003..c5d004891fbe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ BUG FIXES:
  * core: Fix panic when doing a node drain effecting a job that has an
    allocation that was on a node that no longer exists
    [[GH-4215](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/4215)]
- * driver/exec: Create process group for Windows process and send Ctrl-Break signal on Shutdown [[GH-4153](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/4153)]
+ * client: Populate access time and modify time when unarchiving tar archives
+   that do not specify them explicitly [[GH-4217](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/4217)]
+ * driver/exec: Create process group for Windows process and send Ctrl-Break
+   signal on Shutdown [[GH-4153](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/4153)]
  * ui: Alloc stats will continue to poll after a request errors or returns an invalid response [[GH-4195](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/4195)]
 
 ## 0.8.1 (April 17, 2018)
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_tar.go b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_tar.go
index 54b47d30c78a..b6986a25aec5 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_tar.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_tar.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"time"
 )
 
 // untar is a shared helper for untarring an archive. The reader should provide
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ func untar(input io.Reader, dst, src string, dir bool) error {
 	tarR := tar.NewReader(input)
 	done := false
 	dirHdrs := []*tar.Header{}
+	now := time.Now()
 	for {
 		hdr, err := tarR.Next()
 		if err == io.EOF {
@@ -95,8 +97,16 @@ func untar(input io.Reader, dst, src string, dir bool) error {
 			return err
 		}
 
-		// Set the access and modification time
-		if err := os.Chtimes(path, hdr.AccessTime, hdr.ModTime); err != nil {
+		// Set the access and modification time if valid, otherwise default to current time
+		aTime := now
+		mTime := now
+		if hdr.AccessTime.Unix() > 0 {
+			aTime = hdr.AccessTime
+		}
+		if hdr.ModTime.Unix() > 0 {
+			mTime = hdr.ModTime
+		}
+		if err := os.Chtimes(path, aTime, mTime); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
@@ -109,7 +119,15 @@ func untar(input io.Reader, dst, src string, dir bool) error {
 			return err
 		}
 		// Set the mtime/atime attributes since they would have been changed during extraction
-		if err := os.Chtimes(path, dirHdr.AccessTime, dirHdr.ModTime); err != nil {
+		aTime := now
+		mTime := now
+		if dirHdr.AccessTime.Unix() > 0 {
+			aTime = dirHdr.AccessTime
+		}
+		if dirHdr.ModTime.Unix() > 0 {
+			mTime = dirHdr.ModTime
+		}
+		if err := os.Chtimes(path, aTime, mTime); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_testing.go b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_testing.go
index 91cf33d98dfb..a13c0aaa601b 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_testing.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/decompress_testing.go
@@ -72,9 +72,13 @@ func TestDecompressor(t testing.T, d Decompressor, cases []TestDecompressCase) {
 
 				if tc.Mtime != nil {
 					actual := fi.ModTime()
-					expected := *tc.Mtime
-					if actual != expected {
-						t.Fatalf("err %s: expected mtime '%s' for %s, got '%s'", tc.Input, expected.String(), dst, actual.String())
+					if tc.Mtime.Unix() > 0 {
+						expected := *tc.Mtime
+						if actual != expected {
+							t.Fatalf("err %s: expected mtime '%s' for %s, got '%s'", tc.Input, expected.String(), dst, actual.String())
+						}
+					} else if actual.Unix() <= 0 {
+						t.Fatalf("err %s: expected mtime to be > 0, got '%s'", actual.String())
 					}
 				}
 
@@ -103,10 +107,15 @@ func TestDecompressor(t testing.T, d Decompressor, cases []TestDecompressCase) {
 						t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
 					}
 					actual := fi.ModTime()
-					expected := *tc.Mtime
-					if actual != expected {
-						t.Fatalf("err %s: expected mtime '%s' for %s, got '%s'", tc.Input, expected.String(), path, actual.String())
+					if tc.Mtime.Unix() > 0 {
+						expected := *tc.Mtime
+						if actual != expected {
+							t.Fatalf("err %s: expected mtime '%s' for %s, got '%s'", tc.Input, expected.String(), path, actual.String())
+						}
+					} else if actual.Unix() < 0 {
+						t.Fatalf("err %s: expected mtime to be > 0, got '%s'", actual.String())
 					}
+
 				}
 			}
 		}()
diff --git a/vendor/vendor.json b/vendor/vendor.json
index bb3bb96ac306..112d5d49ce2d 100644
--- a/vendor/vendor.json
+++ b/vendor/vendor.json
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
 		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-checkpoint","checksumSHA1":"D267IUMW2rcb+vNe3QU+xhfSrgY=","revision":"1545e56e46dec3bba264e41fde2c1e2aa65b5dd4","revisionTime":"2017-10-09T17:35:28Z"},
 		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp","checksumSHA1":"6ihdHMkDfFx/rJ1A36com2F6bQk=","revision":"a45970658e51fea2c41445ff0f7e07106d007617","revisionTime":"2017-02-11T00:33:01Z"},
 		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-envparse","checksumSHA1":"FKmqR4DC3nCXtnT9pe02z5CLNWo=","revision":"310ca1881b22af3522e3a8638c0b426629886196","revisionTime":"2018-01-19T21:58:41Z"},
-		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-getter","checksumSHA1":"RjsOYvrGzehuWIB6VceeCMpTNqY=","revision":"b345bfcec894fb7ff3fdf9b21baf2f56ea423d98","revisionTime":"2018-04-10T17:49:45Z"},
+		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-getter","checksumSHA1":"uGH6AI982csQJoRPsSooK7FoWqo=","revision":"3f60ec5cfbb2a39731571b9ddae54b303bb0a969","revisionTime":"2018-04-25T22:41:30Z"},
 		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/helper/url","checksumSHA1":"9J+kDr29yDrwsdu2ULzewmqGjpA=","revision":"b345bfcec894fb7ff3fdf9b21baf2f56ea423d98","revisionTime":"2018-04-10T17:49:45Z"},
 		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog","checksumSHA1":"miVF4/7JP0lRwZvFJGKwZWk7aAQ=","revision":"b4e5765d1e5f00a0550911084f45f8214b5b83b9","revisionTime":"2017-07-16T17:45:23Z"},
 		{"path":"github.com/hashicorp/go-immutable-radix","checksumSHA1":"Cas2nprG6pWzf05A2F/OlnjUu2Y=","revision":"8aac2701530899b64bdea735a1de8da899815220","revisionTime":"2017-07-25T22:12:15Z"},