diff --git a/openwrt/package/ssmtp/patches/901-strftime_space_padding.patch b/openwrt/package/ssmtp/patches/901-strftime_space_padding.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dd0b9b116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openwrt/package/ssmtp/patches/901-strftime_space_padding.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ruN ssmtp-2.60-old/arpadate.c ssmtp-2.60-new/arpadate.c
+--- ssmtp-2.60-old/arpadate.c	2002-12-08 18:30:11.000000000 +0100
++++ ssmtp-2.60-new/arpadate.c	2004-05-23 18:54:32.000000000 +0200
+@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
+ 	time_t now;
+ 
+ 	/* RFC822 format string borrowed from GNU shellutils date.c */
+-	const char *format = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";
++	const char *format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";
+ 
+ 	now = time(NULL);
+