diff --git a/src/config.xml b/src/config.xml
index 726183c..b2a3be8 100644
--- a/src/config.xml
+++ b/src/config.xml
@@ -1889,7 +1889,7 @@ hr.footer {
 ]]>
       </docs>
     </option>
-    <option type='bool' id='HTML_TIMESTAMP' defval='1' depends='GENERATE_HTML'>
+    <option type='bool' id='HTML_TIMESTAMP' defval='0' depends='GENERATE_HTML'>
       <docs>
 <![CDATA[
  If the \c HTML_TIMESTAMP tag is set to \c YES then the footer of 
