Sorry for dely in replying... I tried tstamp ant task, but it gives me the date and time in the format I specify in pattern, while I wanted a long value produced by System.currentTimeMillis() in the created file.
Thanks for your response. Regards Ravi. -----Original Message----- From: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 7:33 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: How to store date time as a long value into a text file. Did you look at the tstamp task? <tstamp> <format property = "some-property" pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss"/> </tstamp> Ravi Roy wrote: > Just to inform the list, I was not able to wokout this problem using > standard Ant task, I had to write small custom Ant task to solve this > problem -- which in fact I was trying to avoid ;-) > > Regards, > Ravi. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ravi Roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:35 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: How to store date time as a long value into a text file. > > > Hi all, > > I have searched the archives, but I am not able to get the answer of > my question. My problem is I want to create a file say "foo" and store > current time as long value in that using Ant. > > For example : > > long myvar = System.currentTimeMillis(); > > would produce a long value of current date time, which I want to store > in "foo" > > I created the file : > > <target name="create.foo"> > <touch file="foo" /> > </target> > > But I am not sure, I to store date time as long value into that file.. > Does some have any idea ? > > Regards, > Ravi. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 252-478-8087 (Home) 919-754-4592 (Work) Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]