There's also a jelly format date tag too.
See
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/libs/fmt/tags.html#fmt:formatDate
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Andy Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/07/2003 05:13:21 AM:
> James,
> Just in case you're interested or want to do more formatting with
> the date, I believe this is a Jellified
> version where you can set up the format...
> <!-- create a Java Date instance for 'today' -->
> <new var="now" className="java.util.Date"/>
>
> <!-- create a Java Date formatter -->
> <new var="formatter" className="java.text.SimpleDateFormat">
> <arg value="EEE dd/MM/yy"/>
> <new>
>
> <!-- create a new jelly variable (xx) from the output of putting
> the
date through the formatter -->
> <invoke var="xx" on="${formatter}" method="format">
> <j:arg value="${now}"/>
> </j:invoke>
> <!-- display the variable -->
> The time according to jelly is ${xx}
>
> Regards
> Andy
>
> >>You can use <tstamp/> (which is an ant tag). It set 2 properties
DSTAMP
> >>and TSTAMP with date and time (see ant documentation for more details)
> >>
> >>Ex:
> >>
> >> <tstamp/>
> >> <property name="log.filename" value="log-${DSTAMP}.${TSTAMP}.log"/>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Great! That's exactly what I was after and I just couldn't find it.
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Message d'origine-----
> >>De : James CE Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Envoy� : mercredi 16 juillet 2003 16:27
> >>� : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Objet : Getting current date/time?
> >>
> >>
> >>Hey all,
> >>
> >>Is there any way for my maven.xml to fetch the current date/time so
that
> >>I can subsequently write (using <echo...) it to a file?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>James
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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