Re: How to set the next week start date

[Gilbert Rebhan]

Hi,
Ninju Bohra wrote:
Have you looked at the <tstamp> task 
(http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/tstamp.html)

Maybe something like:

<tstamp>
      <format property="touch.time" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm aa"
              offset="7" unit="week"/>
  </tstamp>

i tried that on Win2000, with jdk 1.5.0_11 ant 1.6.5

<project name="project" default="main">
 <target name="depends">
   <tstamp>
     <format property="touch.time" pattern="mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm aa"
         offset="7" unit="week"/>
   </tstamp>
 </target>

 <target name="main" depends="depends">
        <echo>
      Antversion == ${ant.version}
      Today == ${TODAY}

      $${touch.time} == ${touch.time}
    </echo>
 </target>
</project>

and it gave me =

Buildfile: J:\eclipse_3_2\workspace\AntTest\tstamp.xml
depends:
main:
     [echo] Antversion == Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005
     [echo] Today == April 27 2007
     [echo]
     [echo] ${touch.time} == 19/15/2007 09:19 PM
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 156 milliseconds


hm, strange 19/15/2007 ??

i think you meant something like =

<tstamp>
        <format property="touch.time" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm aa"
         offset="-7" unit="day"/>
</tstamp>

or

<tstamp>
        <format property="touch.time" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm aa"
         offset="7" unit="day"/>
</tstamp>


similar to the example from manual :

  <tstamp>
      <format property="touch.time" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm aa"
              offset="-5" unit="hour"/>
  </tstamp>


but that gives him the actual date minus | plus 7 days.

> Also when you say 'set the current date' what does that mean?
> If you want to calculate what '7 days from now and set it to an ANT
> property'
>please look at the <tstamp> task otherwise please provide more 
>explaination on what you need.

I thought the original poster was asking for

"...
the next weeks start date and last week start date
..."

because of that i suggested the <script> solution, where
he can choose, whether the start day of week = sunday or
monday.

Otherwise the </tstamp> would fit of course.

So he should provide some more details ;-)


Regards, Gilbert



----- Original Message ----
From: Satheesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 4:51:12 AM
Subject: How to set the next week start date


Hi Guys, If i want to set the current date its possible in ANT , even if i want 
a date which is some 'n' days after the current date, that also is possible..

I need a way to set the value of the next weeks start date and last week start 
date using ANT.

How can i achieve this///



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