%date% not working as advertized

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[gwenda]

In the command reference is says the %date% represents the current date on the user's system when setup is run. I am plugging this date into the registry wanting to record the date setup.exe was run, but it's giving me the date of that setup.exe was built.

Can anyone shine a light on this for me?
Gwenda