diff --git a/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt b/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt
index 23d853ca0..40bbe2ca6 100644
--- a/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt
+++ b/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Changes in 4.1.4
 1)  Fix do_test() to accept 0 and to use the same mask as
     Shorewall-shell
 
+2)  The compilation date recorded in the firewall.conf file produced by
+    Shorewall-perl was previously mangled.
+
 Changes in 4.1.3
 
 1)  Fix NFLOG/ULOG upcasing problem.
diff --git a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt
index a19303e72..b5f4359df 100644
--- a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt
+++ b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Problems corrected in Shorewall 4.1.4.
     Also, the default mask for entries in these columns has been
     changed from 0xFF to 0xFFFF for compatibility with Shorewall-shell.
 
+2)  The compilation date recorded in the firewall.conf file produced by
+    Shorewall-perl was previously mangled.
+
 Other changes in Shorewall 4.1.3.
 
 None.
diff --git a/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Config.pm b/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Config.pm
index c3560164c..1914c73e1 100644
--- a/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Config.pm
+++ b/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Config.pm
@@ -2131,7 +2131,9 @@ sub generate_aux_config() {
 
     create_temp_aux_config;
 
-    emit join ( '', "#\n# Shorewall auxiliary configuration file created by Shorewall-perl version ", $globals{VERSION}, ' - ' , localtime , "\n#" );
+    my $date = localtime;
+
+    emit "#\n# Shorewall auxiliary configuration file created by Shorewall-perl version $globals{VERSION} - $date\n#";
 
     for my $option qw(VERBOSITY LOGFILE LOGFORMAT IPTABLES PATH SHOREWALL_SHELL SUBSYSLOCK LOCKFILE RESTOREFILE SAVE_IPSETS) {
 	conditionally_add_option $option;