Diane,
Yes, I implemented it but I didn't document it. I'll rectify that as soon as
possible.
Here is the commit comment which explains usage.
Add the ability to specify time offsets when generating time/date property
strings.
Example usage:
<target name="dateformats">
<tstamp>
<format property="now" pattern="dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SS"/>
<format property="then" offset="-1" unit="year"
pattern="dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SS"/>
</tstamp>
<echo message="now = ${now}, then = ${then}"/>
</target>
Supported units are millisecond, second, minute, hour, day, week, month,
year. The unit is case insensitive
Sorry about missing that.
Conor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2001 4:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Getting a relative time from within Ant
>
>
> When the <tstamp> task was modified to take format specifications, Conor
> also proposed allowing for an offset/unit functionality that would allow
> you to specify something like:
> offset="-10"
> unit="minute"
> I was definitely in favor of it, but I don't know if he ever actually
> coded that up and committed it. You can see his mail about it at:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=97852401318758&w=2
>
> Conor?
>
> Diane
>
> --- Chris Greenlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As part of our automated build process, we're checking out our project
> > source into a clean directory on our build machine. We're using CVS to
> > do this (and the cvs task), and it's working great. But after reading
> > Martin Fowler's article on using ant and JUnit for doing continuous
> > integration testing
> > (http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html), we've
> > decided we ought to be building testing the code that was checked in a
> > little while prior to the start time of the automated build. That way
> > no one is in the process of checking in files and screwing up
> > dependencies when we grab a version to build and test.
> >
> > What I haven't been able to figure out is how we can get, from within
> > ant, the time ten minutes ago. Using <tstamp/> we can get the current
> > date and time, but that's not what we need -- we're looking for that
> > time minus ten minutes. Is there a way to do this?
> >
> > (For now we're using ${DSTAMP} along with a time passed in on the
> > command line, but that's not really an elegant solution.)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Chris Greenlee
>
>
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