diff --git a/bin/filedate b/bin/filedate
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6ea1a5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/filedate
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#######################################################################################
+# A tool for updating .dtx files with a given package date.                           #
+# Copyright (c) 2010, Deyan Ginev, released under the Gnu General Public License (GPL)#
+#                                 see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html            #
+# $URL: https://svn.kwarc.info/repos/stex/trunk/bin/filedate$                         #
+#######################################################################################
+
+use strict;
+
+use Getopt::Long;
+use Modparse;
+use Pod::Usage;
+use Cwd qw(abs_path);
+
+my ($file) = @ARGV;
+my $date = `svn info $file`;
+$date =~ /Last Changed Date: (\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)/;
+$date = $1.'/'.$2.'/'.$3;
+$file = abs_path($file);
+open(IN,"<$file");
+my @lines = ();
+while (<IN>) {
+  if ($_ =~ /\\Provides(Package|Class)/) {
+    $_ =~ s/\[(.*?)\s/\[$date /;
+  }
+  push @lines, $_;
+}
+close(IN);
+open(OUT,">$file");
+print OUT join("",@lines);
+close(OUT);
+
+__END__
+
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+filedate <input filename> <newdate>
+
+Purpose:
+    Update the dates for a \ProvidePackage invocation in a given .dtx source
+
+Example:
+    filedate omdoc.dtx 
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.ctan b/lib/Makefile.ctan
index 2afa775..6b5c150 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.ctan
+++ b/lib/Makefile.ctan
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 HERE   	        = $(shell pwd)
 TMP    	        = /tmp
-TDSCOLL 	= proposal
+TDSCOLL 	?= $(shell basename $$PWD)
 EXPORTED	= $(TMP)/$(TDSCOLL).exp
 TDSDIR 		= $(TMP)/$(TDSCOLL).tds
 TDSZIP 		= $(TMP)/$(TDSCOLL).tds.zip
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ MAKE		= make
 # the filedates and the checksums. To get rid of all the junk we commit and 
 # export a clean copy EXPORTED, on which we run the target ctanexp below,  
 # which generates a directory CTANDIR, which we zip and move into place. 
-ctan: all # filedate checksum
+ctan: all  #filedate checksum
 	git commit -am'draining just to be sure for CTAN distribution'
 	rm -Rf $(EXPORTED)
 	@echo "exporting a clean copy to $(EXPORTED)"