diff --git a/rpm/harbour-sailfishconnect.changes b/rpm/harbour-sailfishconnect.changes
index 02678f6..3800258 100644
--- a/rpm/harbour-sailfishconnect.changes
+++ b/rpm/harbour-sailfishconnect.changes
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # * date Author's Name <author's email> version-release
 # - Summary of changes
 
-* Fri Jan  3 2020 Richard Liebscher <r1tschy@posteo.de> 0.5-1
+* Sat Jan 04 2020 Richard Liebscher <r1tschy@posteo.de> 0.5-1
 - Added Contacts plugin.
 - Resolve Phonenumbers to contact names in telephony plugin.
 - Starts now at system start as systemd user service when in background mode
diff --git a/scripts/changelog.py b/scripts/changelog.py
index 74ee07e..522e94e 100755
--- a/scripts/changelog.py
+++ b/scripts/changelog.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     Path(__file__).parent.parent / "rpm" / "harbour-sailfishconnect.changes"
 )
 HEADER_RE = re.compile(
-    r"^\* (?P<date>\w+ \w+ \d+ \d+) (?P<author>[^<]+) <(?P<email>[^>]+)> (?P<version>[\w.~]+)-(?P<release>\d+)",
+    r"^\*\s+(?P<date>\w+\s+\w+\s+\d+\s+\d+)\s+(?P<author>[^<]+)\s+<(?P<email>[^>]+)>\s+(?P<version>[\w.~]+)-(?P<release>\d+)",
     re.M,
 )
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def find_first_header(changelog: str) -> ChangelogHeader:
 
 def format_datetime(datetime):
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "C")
-    return datetime.strftime("%a %b %e %Y")
+    return datetime.strftime("%a %b %d %Y")
 
 
 def apply_commandfn(fn, args):
@@ -110,12 +110,12 @@ def apply_commandfn(fn, args):
             fp.write(changelog[change.end:])
 
 
-def release(changelog: str, args) -> Change:
+def release(changelog: str, args, date=None) -> Change:
     header = find_first_header(changelog)
     return Change(
         start=header.date_loc[0],
         end=header.date_loc[1],
-        replacement=format_datetime(datetime.datetime.now())
+        replacement=format_datetime(date or datetime.datetime.now())
     )
 
 
diff --git a/scripts/test_changelog.py b/scripts/test_changelog.py
index 1afcc5e..93c7cb1 100644
--- a/scripts/test_changelog.py
+++ b/scripts/test_changelog.py
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 import datetime
 
 
-def apply_inplace(text, fn, args):
-    change = fn(changelog=text, args=args)
+def apply_inplace(text, fn, *args, **kwargs):
+    change = fn(changelog=text, args=args, **kwargs)
     if change:
         return text[:change.start] + change.replacement + text[change.end:]
     else:
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ def test_release():
         * Sat Mar 02 2000 the author <mail@example.org> 0.1-1
     """)
 
-    date = format_datetime(datetime.datetime.now())
     assert dedent("""
-        * {} the author <mail@example.org> 0.1-1
-    """.format(date)) == apply_inplace(changelog, release, [])
+        * Fri Jan 03 2020 the author <mail@example.org> 0.1-1
+    """) == apply_inplace(changelog, release, date=datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 3))