diff --git a/sandbox/update-version b/sandbox/update-version
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1eda83afe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sandbox/update-version
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "Updating version..."
+perl -pi -e  "s/^version\s*=\s*['\"]([\S]+)[ '\"].*/version = '\1 ($( date -Iseconds ))'/" src/version.py
+git add src/version.py
diff --git a/src/version.py b/src/version.py
index 021bfc216..b73d4b4e4 100644
--- a/src/version.py
+++ b/src/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """stick the various versioning attributes in here, so we only have to change
 them once."""
-version = '0.83.4.1+limnoria'
+version = '0.83.4.1+limnoria (2011-04-26T10:32:24+0200)'