diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-common.yml b/.github/workflows/build-common.yml
index 3e2f57d8bb..f9b1f519c5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-common.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-common.yml
@@ -64,16 +64,15 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # add any untracked folders that may have been added by generateLicenseReport
           git add licenses
-          # there's always going to one line difference due to the timestamp included in the report
-          if [[ $(git diff --cached --shortstat licenses) == " 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)" ]]
+          if git diff --cached --quiet licenses
           then
             echo "Licenses are up-to-date."
           else
             echo "Licenses are not up-to-date, please run './gradlew generateLicenseReport' locally and commit."
             echo
-            echo "$(git diff --cached --stat licenses)"
+            git diff --cached --stat licenses
             echo
-            echo "$(git diff --cached licenses)"
+            git diff --cached licenses
             exit 1
           fi
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull-request-helper.yml b/.github/workflows/pull-request-helper.yml
index b26be60ece..9b5cddfbc1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull-request-helper.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull-request-helper.yml
@@ -44,11 +44,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           ./gradlew generateLicenseReport
           git add licenses
-          # there's always going to one line difference due to the timestamp included in the report
-          if [[ $(git diff --cached --shortstat licenses) == " 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)" ]]
-          then
-            git reset HEAD licenses
-            git checkout -- licenses
+          if git diff --cached --quiet; then
             exit 0 # success
           fi
           git commit -m "./gradlew generateLicenseReport"
diff --git a/agent/agent/build.gradle.kts b/agent/agent/build.gradle.kts
index 2b581da58b..af183ae0f4 100644
--- a/agent/agent/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/agent/agent/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.tasks.ShadowJar
 import com.github.jk1.license.filter.LicenseBundleNormalizer
 import com.github.jk1.license.render.InventoryMarkdownReportRenderer
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
 
 plugins {
   id("com.github.jk1.dependency-license-report")
@@ -169,6 +170,22 @@ tasks {
   named("generateLicenseReport").configure {
     dependsOn(cleanLicenses)
     finalizedBy(":spotlessApply")
+    doLast {
+      val reportFile = rootProject.file("licenses/more-licenses.md")
+      if (reportFile.exists()) {
+        val reportContents = reportFile.readText(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
+        val normalizedReportContents =
+          reportContents.replace(
+            Regex(
+              """(?m)(^## Dependency License Report\r?\n)_\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}[^\r\n]*_\r?\n"""
+            ),
+            "$1",
+          )
+        if (normalizedReportContents != reportContents) {
+          reportFile.writeText(normalizedReportContents, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
+        }
+      }
+    }
     // disable licence report generation unless this task is explicitly run
     // the files produced by this task are used by other tasks without declaring them as dependency
     // which gradle considers an error
diff --git a/licenses/more-licenses.md b/licenses/more-licenses.md
index 1db73bfc19..7a64a6bd82 100644
--- a/licenses/more-licenses.md
+++ b/licenses/more-licenses.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 
 # agent
 ## Dependency License Report
-_2026-07-29 22:55:05 UTC_
 ## Apache License, Version 2.0
 
 **1** **Group:** `com.fasterxml.jackson.core` **Name:** `jackson-annotations` **Version:** `2.22`