[NTG-context] \date behaving strange

I'm getting a bit confused. The \date function doesn't result in a formatted date. That goes for some files that are a few weeks old. What am I missing? \starttext \date[d=2,m=3,y= 2018] \stoptext results in: d=2m=3y= 2018 An optional formatting parameter has no effect \date[d=1, m=4, y=2018][weekday, {\\}, dd,{-}, mm,-, year] using: mtx-context | current version: 2019.02.07 18:46