Thanks. Actually my real question is why doesn't the snippet of xml for the propertyfile task work correctly, ie why doesn't it return the right date.
-----Original Message----- From: Sujan Digumarti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 8:30 AM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: propertyfile task returning wrong date <tstamp> <format property="BUILD_DATE" pattern="yyyyMMd" /> </tstamp> change BUILD_DATE to builddate -----Original Message----- From: Nolan Ring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 5:57 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: propertyfile task returning wrong date Hi, The following is a snippet of my build.xml file in which I capture build number and date in order to create a build label. It works great except for the fact that the date it returns is Jan 1, 1970! :-) build.xml file: <propertyfile file="buildversion.properties" comment="Date, time and build number of most recent build"> <entry key="buildnum" type="int" default="0000" operation="+" pattern="0000" /> <entry key="builddate" type="date" default="now" pattern="yyyyMMdda" /> <entry key="buildlabel" value="${builddate}_${buildnum}" /> </propertyfile> <property file="buildversion.properties" /> <echo message="Buildlabel is ${buildlabel}" /> <echo message="Builddate is ${builddate}" /> <echo message="Buildnum is ${buildnum}" /> output from ant build: [propertyfile] Creating new property file: /webapp/neo-gate/buildversion.properties [echo] Buildlabel is 19700101AM_0001 [echo] Builddate is 19700101AM [echo] Buildnum is 0001 Just because I was curious, I did the following and it returned the date correctly: Am I missing something?? Thanks. Nolan Ring -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
