diff --git a/docs/axes/cartesian/time.md b/docs/axes/cartesian/time.md
index df51f00a111..faa89a9e796 100644
--- a/docs/axes/cartesian/time.md
+++ b/docs/axes/cartesian/time.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The time scale is used to display times and dates. When building its ticks, it w
 
 ## Date Adapters
 
-The time scale requires both a date library and corresponding adapter to be present. By default, Chart.js includes an adapter for Moment.js. You may wish to [exclude moment](../../getting-started/integration.md) and choose from [other available adapters](https://github.com/chartjs/awesome#adapters) instead.
+The time scale requires both a date library and corresponding adapter to be present. By default, Chart.js includes an adapter for Moment.js. You may wish to choose from [other available adapters](https://github.com/chartjs/awesome#adapters) instead.
 
 ## Data Sets
 
diff --git a/docs/getting-started/integration.md b/docs/getting-started/integration.md
index e07a4c74783..f48a4af957c 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started/integration.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started/integration.md
@@ -25,26 +25,6 @@ import Chart from 'chart.js';
 var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {...});
 ```
 
-**Note:** Moment.js is installed along Chart.js as dependency. If you don't want to use Moment.js (either because you use a different date adapter or simply because don't need time functionalities), you will have to configure your bundler to exclude this dependency (e.g. using [`externals` for Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/configuration/externals/) or [`external` for Rollup](https://rollupjs.org/guide/en#peer-dependencies)).
-
-```javascript
-// Webpack
-{
-    externals: {
-        moment: 'moment'
-    }
-}
-```
-
-```javascript
-// Rollup
-{
-    external: {
-        ['moment']
-    }
-}
-```
-
 ## Require JS
 
 **Important:** RequireJS [can **not** load CommonJS module as is](https://requirejs.org/docs/commonjs.html#intro), so be sure to require one of the UMD builds instead (i.e. `dist/Chart.js`, `dist/Chart.min.js`, etc.).
@@ -55,7 +35,7 @@ require(['path/to/chartjs/dist/Chart.min.js'], function(Chart){
 });
 ```
 
-**Note:** starting v2.8, Moment.js is an optional dependency for `Chart.js` and `Chart.min.js`. In order to use the time scale with Moment.js, you need to make sure Moment.js is fully loaded **before** requiring Chart.js. You can either use a shim:
+**Note:** starting v2.8, in order to use the time scale, you need to make sure [one of the available date adapters](https://github.com/chartjs/awesome#adapters) and corresponding date library are fully loaded **before** requiring Chart.js. The date adapter for Moment.js is included with Chart.js, but you still need to include Moment.js itself if this is the date adapter you choose to use. You can either use a shim:
 
 ```javascript
 require.config({
diff --git a/docs/getting-started/v3-migration.md b/docs/getting-started/v3-migration.md
index 4d8f0f77968..1b60657e2ed 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started/v3-migration.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started/v3-migration.md
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 
 Chart.js 3.0 introduces a number of breaking changes. Chart.js 2.0 was released in April 2016. In the years since then, as Chart.js has grown in popularity and feature set, we've learned some lessons about how to better create a charting library. In order to improve performance, offer new features, and improve maintainability it was necessary to break backwards compatibility, but we aimed to do so only when necessary.
 
-## Setup
+## End user migration
 
-Chart.js is no longer providing the `Chart.bundle.js` and `Chart.bundle.min.js`. Please see the [installation](installation.md) and [integration](integration.md) docs for details on the recommended way to setup Chart.js if you were using these builds.
+### Setup and installation
 
-## End user migration
+* Chart.js is no longer providing the `Chart.bundle.js` and `Chart.bundle.min.js`. Please see the [installation](installation.md) and [integration](integration.md) docs for details on the recommended way to setup Chart.js if you were using these builds.
+* `moment` is no longer specified as an npm dependency. If you are using the time scale, you must include one of [the available adapters](https://github.com/chartjs/awesome#adapters) and corresponding date library.
 
 ### Ticks
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 52b96edcea3..842fca6971a 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -6843,7 +6843,8 @@
     "moment": {
       "version": "2.24.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/moment/-/moment-2.24.0.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-bV7f+6l2QigeBBZSM/6yTNq4P2fNpSWj/0e7jQcy87A8e7o2nAfP/34/2ky5Vw4B9S446EtIhodAzkFCcR4dQg=="
+      "integrity": "sha512-bV7f+6l2QigeBBZSM/6yTNq4P2fNpSWj/0e7jQcy87A8e7o2nAfP/34/2ky5Vw4B9S446EtIhodAzkFCcR4dQg==",
+      "dev": true
     },
     "ms": {
       "version": "2.1.2",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5a6f4eb1abd..5aa15062801 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
     "karma-rollup-preprocessor": "^7.0.0",
     "karma-safari-private-launcher": "^1.0.0",
     "merge-stream": "^1.0.1",
+    "moment": "^2.10.2",
     "pixelmatch": "^5.0.0",
     "rollup": "^1.0.0",
     "rollup-plugin-babel": "^4.3.3",
@@ -71,7 +72,6 @@
     "yargs": "^14.0.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "chartjs-color": "^2.1.0",
-    "moment": "^2.10.2"
+    "chartjs-color": "^2.1.0"
   }
 }