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mv command with timestamps not working on expected

Hi Linux Guru's
I was trying a lot of variety to include on my script on moving files with timestamps but I get the wrong output

I used this:
mv /var/tmp/pogi_install_note /var/tmp/pogi_install_note.`date +%F-%H%M%S`

but got this

[root@pogi ~]# ls -ltrh /var/tmp/pogi*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81 Nov 11 03:57 /var/tmp/pogi_install_note.file.file-035756OURCE
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81 Nov 11 04:35 /var/tmp/pogi_install_note.file.file-043527OURCE
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81 Nov 11 05:05 /var/tmp/pogi_install_note.file.file-050529OURCE
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81 Nov 11 06:19 /var/tmp/pogi_install_note.file.file-061943OURCE

Hmmm. Your command worked just fine for me. Don't know what's different about your system.

Code:

$ ls

$ > xyz

$ mv xyz xyz.`date +%F-%H%M%S`

$ ls

xyz.2014-11-11-100240

$

Looks like it's not issued from the command line but from within a text editor that has some smart substitution. (file.file for the -f and SOURCE for the -s).

OK