diff -up doxygen-1.6.2/src/configoptions.cpp.timestamp doxygen-1.6.2/src/configoptions.cpp
--- doxygen-1.6.2/src/configoptions.cpp.timestamp	2009-12-28 11:39:11.000000000 +0100
+++ doxygen-1.6.2/src/configoptions.cpp	2010-01-04 11:58:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -1088,6 +1088,14 @@ void addConfigOptions(Config *cfg)
   cs->setWidgetType(ConfigString::File);
   cs->addDependency("GENERATE_HTML");
   //----
+  cb = cfg->addBool(
+                 "HTML_TIMESTAMP",
+                 "If the HTML_TIMESTAMP tag is set to YES then the generated HTML\n"
+                 "documentation will contain the timesstamp.",
+                 FALSE
+                );
+  cb->addDependency("GENERATE_HTML");
+  //----
   cs = cfg->addString(
                  "HTML_STYLESHEET",
                  "The HTML_STYLESHEET tag can be used to specify a user-defined cascading\n"
diff -up doxygen-1.6.2/src/config.xml.timestamp doxygen-1.6.2/src/config.xml
--- doxygen-1.6.2/src/config.xml.timestamp	2009-12-28 11:38:55.000000000 +0100
+++ doxygen-1.6.2/src/config.xml	2010-01-04 11:58:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -761,6 +761,10 @@ The HTML_FOOTER tag can be used to speci
 each generated HTML page. If it is left blank doxygen will generate a 
 standard footer. 
 ' defval='' depends='GENERATE_HTML'/>
+    <option type='bool' id='HTML_TIMESTAMP' docs='
+If the HTML_TIMESTAMP tag is set to YES then the generated HTML
+documentation will contain the timesstamp.
+' defval='' depends='GENERATE_HTML'/>
     <option type='string' id='HTML_STYLESHEET' format='file' docs='
 The HTML_STYLESHEET tag can be used to specify a user-defined cascading 
 style sheet that is used by each HTML page. It can be used to 
diff -up doxygen-1.6.2/src/htmlgen.cpp.timestamp doxygen-1.6.2/src/htmlgen.cpp
--- doxygen-1.6.2/src/htmlgen.cpp.timestamp	2009-12-21 11:24:22.000000000 +0100
+++ doxygen-1.6.2/src/htmlgen.cpp	2010-01-04 12:04:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static const char search_script[]=
 
 static QCString g_header;
 static QCString g_footer;
+static bool timestamp=false;
 
 //------------------------- Pictures for the Tabs ------------------------
 
@@ -693,6 +694,8 @@ void HtmlGenerator::init()
   if (!Config_getString("HTML_FOOTER").isEmpty()) 
   {
     g_footer=fileToString(Config_getString("HTML_FOOTER"));
+    if (Config_getBool("HTML_TIMESTAMP"))
+      timestamp=true;
     //printf("g_footer='%s'\n",g_footer.data());
   }
   createSubDirs(d);
@@ -932,7 +935,7 @@ static void writePageFooter(QTextStream 
     if (timeStamp)
     {
       t << theTranslator->trGeneratedAt(
-          dateToString(TRUE),
+          dateToString(timestamp),
           Config_getString("PROJECT_NAME")
          );
     }