If I recall correctly, timestamper plugin is totally a different thing, it adds 
timestamps to the build console of each line. While secondary-timestamper is to 
set an extra timestamp as description in the build history list. 


Each plugin has a different purpose. 


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Hao

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Baptiste Mathus <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> There are (at least) already 3 timestamping plugins:
> * https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Timestamper
> * https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/secondary-timestamper-plugin
> * https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ZenTimestamp+Plugin
> The second one explicitly lists TZ as a goal.
> Did/would you consider contributing your additional feature(s) to one of
> them?
> Maybe it'd be beneficial to users to have a bit more unity in that field?
> Cheers
> 2015-12-18 10:58 GMT+01:00 Hao CHEN <[email protected]>:
>> I cloned the repo to local and read the source code before I decided to
>> create a different one.
>> ZenTimestamp exports only one variable to the build, but can be configured
>> to use different formats for each job and each node.
>>
>> While I need to
>> 1. Time zone support, which is relatively  easy to add to zentimestamp
>> 2. More timestamp variables and formats. A same timestamp with different
>> formats, can be used in different places, such as folder names or file
>> names using a path friendly format, JSP pages using a human friendly
>> formats. And these formats are set up only once in global config, they can
>> be used in the corp-width as a naming convention.
>> To do this is almost changing every thing in ZenTimestamp.
>>
>> Hao CHEN
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 1:17 AM -0800, "Daniel Beck" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 16.12.2015, at 10:15, Hao Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'd like to create a plugin to expose build timestamp to as env vars.
>>
>> This looks really similar to ZenTimstamp plugin -- why are you not using
>> that? Timezone support could be added if that's missing.
>>
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