diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 6abb078732e..90789d10f66 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ Mark D. Gray            mark.d.gray@intel.com
 Mark Hamilton           mhamilton@nicira.com
 Mark Kavanagh           mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com
 Mark Maglana            mmaglana@gmail.com
+Markos Chandras         mchandras@suse.de
 Martin Casado           casado@nicira.com
 Martino Fornasa         mf@fornasa.it
 Maryam Tahhan           maryam.tahhan@intel.com
diff --git a/include/openvswitch/util.h b/include/openvswitch/util.h
index 2230b2a0cdf..363fa39b6cb 100644
--- a/include/openvswitch/util.h
+++ b/include/openvswitch/util.h
@@ -25,11 +25,7 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-void ovs_set_program_name__(const char *name, const char *version,
-                            const char *date, const char *time);
-
-#define ovs_set_program_name(name, version) \
-        ovs_set_program_name__(name, version, __DATE__, __TIME__)
+void ovs_set_program_name(const char *name, const char *version);
 
 const char *ovs_get_program_name(void);
 const char *ovs_get_program_version(void);
diff --git a/lib/util.c b/lib/util.c
index 94311ac6af3..6ca04ad88ac 100644
--- a/lib/util.c
+++ b/lib/util.c
@@ -461,14 +461,9 @@ ovs_strerror(int error)
  * vSwitch.  Otherwise, it is assumed to be an external program linking against
  * the Open vSwitch libraries.
  *
- * The 'date' and 'time' arguments should likely be called with
- * "__DATE__" and "__TIME__" to use the time the binary was built.
- * Alternatively, the "ovs_set_program_name" macro may be called to do this
- * automatically.
  */
 void
-ovs_set_program_name__(const char *argv0, const char *version, const char *date,
-                       const char *time)
+ovs_set_program_name(const char *argv0, const char *version)
 {
     char *basename;
 #ifdef _WIN32
@@ -496,14 +491,12 @@ ovs_set_program_name__(const char *argv0, const char *version, const char *date,
 
     free(program_version);
     if (!strcmp(version, VERSION)) {
-        program_version = xasprintf("%s (Open vSwitch) "VERSION"\n"
-                                    "Compiled %s %s\n",
-                                    program_name, date, time);
+        program_version = xasprintf("%s (Open vSwitch) "VERSION"\n",
+                                    program_name);
     } else {
         program_version = xasprintf("%s %s\n"
-                                    "Open vSwitch Library "VERSION"\n"
-                                    "Compiled %s %s\n",
-                                    program_name, version, date, time);
+                                    "Open vSwitch Library "VERSION"\n",
+                                    program_name, version);
     }
 }