diff --git a/libraries/entropy/const.py b/libraries/entropy/const.py
index 7a728efb8..c44e7be08 100644
--- a/libraries/entropy/const.py
+++ b/libraries/entropy/const.py
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ def const_default_settings(rootdir):
         'distro_website_url': "http://www.sabayon.org",
         'changelog_filename': "ChangeLog",
         'changelog_filename_compressed': "ChangeLog.bz2",
+        'changelog_date_format': "%a, %d %b %Y %X +0000",
         # enable/disable packages RSS feed feature
         'rss-feed': True,
         # default name of the RSS feed
diff --git a/libraries/entropy/server/interfaces/db.py b/libraries/entropy/server/interfaces/db.py
index d7488f61c..e485d2100 100644
--- a/libraries/entropy/server/interfaces/db.py
+++ b/libraries/entropy/server/interfaces/db.py
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ class ServerPackagesRepositoryUpdater(object):
         msg = msg.rstrip()
 
         def _write_changelog_entry(changelog_f, atom, pkg_meta):
-            this_time = time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %X +0000")
+            this_time = time.strftime(etpConst['changelog_date_format'])
             changelog_str = """\
 commit %s; %s; %s
 Machine: %s; %s; %s