diff --git a/fix-export b/fix-export
index 08ef130e4..39881bb25 100755
--- a/fix-export
+++ b/fix-export
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ echo "fixing distribution in $1..."
 
 cd $1
 
+if test "$DATEDVERSION"; then
+	date=`date -u +%Y%m%d`
+	perl -i.old -p -e 's/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE\(([^,]*),[^)]*\)/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE\($1,'$date'\)/' configure.in
+	rm configure.in.old
+fi
+
 ver=`sed -n 's/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(.*,\(.*\))/\1/p' configure.in`
 M="*   This is version $ver.   *"
 echo "$M" | sed -e 's/./*/g'