diff --git a/src/discord-rpc.cpp b/src/discord-rpc.cpp
index 4295bf9..1b08037 100644
--- a/src/discord-rpc.cpp
+++ b/src/discord-rpc.cpp
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static MsgQueue<JoinRequest, JoinQueueSize> JoinAskQueue;
 // We want to auto connect, and retry on failure, but not as fast as possible. This does expoential
 // backoff from 0.5 seconds to 1 minute
 static Backoff ReconnectTimeMs(500, 60 * 1000);
-static auto NextConnect{std::chrono::system_clock::now()};
+static auto NextConnect = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
 static int Pid{0};
 static int Nonce{1};