[Exim] compile date format issue

I was upgrading to 4.14 on my personal machine and I noticed a
format problem in -bV output, specifically:

Exim version 4.14 #1 built 9/-03/-3 21:51:36

It looks like my system uses a different format for __DATE__ than my
machines at work (and every other machine on the face of the earth,
apparently).

My system info (MacOSX 10.2.4, dec 2002 developer tools):
g3 0 /home/jetmore > uname -a
Darwin g3 6.3 Darwin Kernel Version 6.3: Sat Dec 14 03:11:25 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.23.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
g3 0/home/jetmore > gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.1/specs
Thread model: posix
Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1151, based on gcc version 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)


Output of printf("date = %s\n", __DATE__) is '03/19/03'

I don't have access to enough systems to tell whether this is specific to
apple's gcc or if it's a gcc3 thing (all other systems I have access to
are gcc2 something).

I was going to write a patch, but knowing the true nature of the problem I
was reluctant to do so. Anyone else experiencing this?

--John