SSI Command Inside Of An SSI File Doesn't Work

My file

"index.shtml"

contains the line

<!--#include virtual="xxx/yyy/common/ssi-footer.inc" -->

The file

"ssi-footer.inc"

contains the line

"<div align="center">
Copyright &copy; 2000–
<!--#config timefmt="%Y" --><!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->.
&nbsp;All rights reserved.
</div>"

The year, 2007, does not appear on the page in the footer. Is this
because the server doesn't know how to parse a file that uses a ".inc"
filename extension?

Previous to my using includes, I used this same code in the file
"index.shtml". The "2007" did appear properly in my site.

If I were to change the filename to "ssi-footer.shtml" (I'm not), how
would I force the server to parse "ssi-footer.shtml" before it parsed
"index.shtml"?

Thank you.

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