diff --git a/openvpn-no-build-date.patch b/openvpn-no-build-date.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index cdb71da..0000000
--- a/openvpn-no-build-date.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-Index: options.c
-===================================================================
---- options.c.orig
-+++ options.c
-@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ const char title_string[] =
- #ifdef ENABLE_PKCS11
-   " [PKCS11]"
- #endif
--  " built on " __DATE__
- ;
- 
- #ifndef ENABLE_SMALL
diff --git a/openvpn.changes b/openvpn.changes
index 39228b0..560304b 100644
--- a/openvpn.changes
+++ b/openvpn.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 15 21:05:23 UTC 2011 - crrodriguez@opensuse.org
+
+- KVPNC is unable to parse openvpn version [bnc#679153]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Feb 17 10:59:23 UTC 2011 - mt@suse.de
 
diff --git a/openvpn.spec b/openvpn.spec
index da6a0fe..e1b37a6 100644
--- a/openvpn.spec
+++ b/openvpn.spec
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Source4:        client-netconfig.up
 Source5:        client-netconfig.down
 Patch1:         %{name}-2.1-plugin-man.dif
 Patch2:         %{name}-2.1-plugin-build.dif
-Patch3:         openvpn-no-build-date.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  lzo-devel openssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  iproute2 pam-devel
@@ -130,11 +129,13 @@ Authors:
 %setup -q -n %{name}-%{upstream_version}
 %patch1 -p0
 %patch2 -p0
-%patch3
 sed -e "s|@PLUGIN_DIR@|%{plugin_dir}|g" \
     -e "s|@PLUGIN_LIBDIR@|%{plugin_libdir}|g" \
     -e "s|@PLUGIN_DOCDIR@|%{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}|g" \
     -i openvpn.8
+# the build __DATE__ causes obs rebuild/republish of binaries;
+# use the date of version.m4 file in the tar archive instead
+sed -e "s|\" __DATE__|$(date '+%b %e %Y' -r version.m4)\"|g" -i options.c
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi