rcsdate not appearing

Platform: Intel PII, debian sarge testing/unstable, DocBook Website 2.4.0
	  libxml2 2.6.5-1, libxslt1/xsltproc 1.1.2-3

I have the following line in my layout.xml file
  <config param="rcsdate" value="$Date: 2004/02/23 11:47:17 $"/>

No date appears at the bottom left of my generated pages, that I can
see.

Is there some other setting I have to make?  Or should the date appear
as soon as the config parameter rcsdate has been set?

Thanx!


- Steinar