Date String in rotated Logs

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• From: Vassilios Kotoulas <fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 06:02:08 +0200
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Hi,

I want to have a date string in my rotated logs, so I added
extension .`date +%Y$m%d`
in my /etc/logrotate.conf but it doesn't work. I have still
$LOGFILE.1.gz 

Can I do this via logrotate or have must I run a script via cron after
logrotate runs which renames the .1.gz file?

Regards
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