> I'm looking for a way to insert a "timestamp" on the index page of my
> plucker databases. This should happen on build and tells me when the
> database was last built (easily viewable on the first page).
Some of us have done this under unix/linux for awhile now. I think
Chris Hawks came up with the first cut, and I posix'ized it.
> Now, is there any easier way to do this ? Cant you make plucker
> understand a special macro tag, like $TIMESTAMP$ which makes it insert
> current time and date at that point ?
Sure, send us a patch to add that functionality and we'll roll it
right into the package, assuming it doesn't break something else.
Remember, we'd have to make a portable solution, one which worked
universally on linux, unix, OS/2, Windows, and now Macintosh. You could
easily just stick it in the headers of the html if you want, or name the
database by the date of creation, which would make more sense. That way you
don't have to open the database to find out the date of it, and in DbMgr,
you could see immediately which was the most recent version of your data.
Just a thought...
/d
