I figured out the way to do it.  If you have the history turned on, the
following command will show the tag information including the date.

cvs history -T

> Richard Giang                                                 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frode Nilsen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:20 AM
> To:   Giang, Richard P; Mark Derricutt
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> Subject:      Re: Date of Tags & How to show the time of a Tag
> 
> I was hacking the CVS code some months ago to make such a patch, but 
> (at least to me) it seemed like the date for tag creation isn't saved.
> 
> You only have the date for the revision of the file that the tag are 
> applied to.
> 
> I assume your intention is like mine, to use the tag to automatically 
> put a release tag into your software. If you find any solution please 
> inform me.
> 
> I did find something that might be interesting, it is possible to 
> list the tags for a given revision in chronological order. This might 
> be just a "feature" of the current implementation, and not stable.
> 
> During this investigation I made a patch that does keyword 
> substitution on $LastTag$, but I never finished it to take care of 
> the situation where you check out something based on a tag. (Then 
> $LastTag should equal $Name$)
> If you are interested I might do the job.
> 
> 
> >Does anyone know how to show the time when a tag was created?
> >
> >Thank you
> >
> >>  Richard Giang
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