You can try this the other way around: First, build an Ant property called "ivy.publish.pubdate" with the <tstamp> task Use the format "yyyyMMddHHmmss". Next, when you run <ivy:publish>, set "pubdate" to the "ivy.publish.pubdate" property. That will set the property and the publish timestamp to the same value.
-- David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com perl -e 'print "Just another second rate Perl Hacker\n";' On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:14 AM, adrian.p.sm...@bt.com wrote: > When I publish an artefact ivy kindly adds a timestamp to the filename: > > [ivy:publish] published blah to > http://host/artefacts/content/repositories/snapshots/com/acme/blah-20130121160013.jar > > Can I get the timestamp into an ant property for later use? > > TIA > > Adrian >