creating template files for autoinsert

[Kamendje Guy-Armand]

Hi,
I am trying to create system wide template file to be used with
autoinsert.
I have as an example the following skeleton to be used with 
verilog files
----skeleton begins here

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//-- Title         : 
//-- Project       : 
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//-- File          : "%f"                              
//-- Author        : "%U"                                              
//-- Created       :                                           
//-- Last modified : Time-stamp: "23 October 2002 15-12-39"                     
                       
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//-- Description :                                                             
//-- 
//-- 
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//-- Modification history :                                                    
//-- %d : created       
//-- %d : "%U": 
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----skeleton ends here

The skeleton is correctly inserted in the newly created file but the
%-escaped are not expanded into filename date and username as I was
expecting.
What am I doing wrong?
BTW. is there a variable that contains the creation date of a file?
Thanks for any hint
-- 
                Guy-Armand Kamendje
           Graz University of Technology