How can I control bash's brace expansion to do the right thing (which zsh does automatically)?

In zsh, I get the expected result from both of these brace expansions:

$ touch file-{001..100} $ touch file-{1..100} 

The first one gives me files named file-001, file-002, etc., all the way to file-100. The second one gives me files named file-1, file-2, etc., all the way to file-100.

In bash, however, both give me files named file-1, file-2, etc. This strikes me as a pretty major bug (or design flaw) in bash's brace expansion.

Is there any way to configure bash to do the right thing in this case?