diff --git a/sandbox/update-version b/sandbox/update-version
index a9c7472ac..191b16212 100755
--- a/sandbox/update-version
+++ b/sandbox/update-version
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 echo "Updating version..."
-TZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC" perl -pi -e  "s/^version\s*=\s*['\"]([\S]+)[ '\"].*/version = '\1 ($( date -Iseconds ))'/" src/version.py
+perl -pi -e  "s/^version\s*=\s*['\"]([\S]+)[ '\"].*/version = '\1 ($( TZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC" date -Iseconds ))'/" src/version.py
 git add src/version.py
 # vim: set ft=sh: syntax: 
diff --git a/src/version.py b/src/version.py
index 5324bae5d..d7710fbea 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 (2011-12-06T17:42:04+0100)'
+version = '0.83.4.1+limnoria (2012-01-06T17:03:59+0000)'