default value of a field

Does the persist.default-value meta data work?  I am trying to use it in my own
code and its having problems.  I looked in app-poll's Poll.java and I see for
the "Open" field it has this meta-data: 

/**
	 * Returns the open.
     * 
     * @persist.field 
     *   name="Open" 
     *   type="timestamp" 
     *   null-allowed="false" 
     *   descrip="$pollOpenTime"
     *   db-name="PollOpen"
     * @persist.default-value 
     *   current-datetime="true"
     *
	 * @return Date Get the date this poll "opens"
	 */

But looking at the Poll-persist-system.xconf it creates, I don't see anything in
there about default-values?  I see the java code in AbstractPersistentMetaData
to handle the default-value attribute of a field, but the generated
configuration is missing the data.  Right?

Thank you, 
Nate