diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 97762d80ad..d98f0711d0 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -28,3 +28,6 @@ org.gradle.configuration-cache=false
 #org.gradle.configuration-cache-problems=warn
 # bump the Gradle daemon heap size (you can set bigger heap sizes as well)
 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xms2g -Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=768m
+
+# This lets all properties files produced via `java.util.Properties.store()` not contain the generation timestamp.
+systemProp.java.properties.date=File generated by Apache Polaris build.