CA, you know this little bug and it's solution since 2014.
Spec v9.4.2.1 was released in 2015. Why haven't you fixed it?
Editing the master event format file is a 1-Minute-job + a few minutes for documentation and that's it for all times.
This is a question of product quality and I think, this is what we can expect for our maintenance fee.
(Found in the KB-article: "Document ID: TEC617966, Last Modified Date: 9/26/2014")