We do that out of convenience for the most part. It's a single command that gives a "specific to the user " timestamp. But the bottom line is, it only needs to be unique(ish) for how often it needs to be called. If a user is accessing a file several times a day, then it needs to be more specific than just yymmdd.
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.1 - RC2 ** Timestamping needs to be done in Ant. Does it have to have seconds/minutes? On 6/12/14 10:11 AM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <[email protected]> wrote: >We use the timestamp [1] from the date class. It's one command for us. > >" The number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970" > > >Here is a from the hip example. > > >var dtNow:Date = new Date(); > >sURL = "http://www.site.com/file.ext?ts="; + String(dtNow.time); > > >[1] >http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/Date.ht >ml#time > > >-Mark > >-----Original Message----- >From: Alex Harui [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:03 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.1 - RC2 ** > >Yes, although the ts is the current YYYYMMDD. Do you think I need to add >HHMMSS? > >On 6/12/14 9:53 AM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>Did we implement the timestamp on the URL ? Like [1] >> >>[1] http://www.site.com/file.ext?ts=12345678 >> >>-Mark >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Alex Harui [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 12:43 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.1 - RC2 ** >> >>I"m on a mac. But I think the fact I'm getting a different error means >>that the installer is still fetching the file from the browser cache. >>I'll try to fix that. >
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