diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e9730e98..4535ac7e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2006-09-01 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* main.c: Add date and time of compilation to the verbose
+	greeting message.
+	Idea taken from patch #3172: Adds date and time of compile
+	to usage message
+
 2006-09-01 Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	Contributed by <avrdude@zevv.nl> as
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index a29a2b6e..15f16aaf 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -946,9 +946,9 @@ int main(int argc, char * argv [])
      * they are running
      */
     fprintf(stderr,
-            "\n%s: Version %s\n"
+            "\n%s: Version %s, compiled on %s at %s\n"
             "%sCopyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/\n\n",
-            progname, version, progbuf);
+            progname, version, __DATE__, __TIME__, progbuf);
   }
 
   if (verbose) {