Can someone apply the patch for adding %DATETIME%, if there are no objections?
Denis On 15 January 2016 at 21:23, Denis Kozlov wrote: > I'm proposing addition of {$I %DATETIME%} directive. A trivial patch is > attached. > > The following will be possible: > const > T = {$I %DATETIME%}; > begin > WriteLn(DateTimeToStr(T)); > end. > > Benefits of this directive: > 1) Access to build date/time in native TDateTime format. Existing {$I > %DATE%} and {$I %TIME%} are inserted as strings in predefined format, > parsing is required to extract date/time components or to reformat it. > 2) Atomic access to build date/time. Use of {$I %DATE%} and {$I %TIME%} > can have undesired effect if {$I %DATE%} is executed at 2016-01-15 > 23:59:59.999 and 1 ms later {$I %TIME%} is executed at 2016-01-16 > 00:00:00.000. Resulting combination of two directive is 2016-01-15 > 00:00:00, a day out of date. > 3) Search and replace of build date/time is no longer a trivial text > editor operation. > > The following ticket can then be resolved: > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26472 >
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