[CMake] How to obtain "date of the day"

[David Cole]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <
jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:

> hi Folks,
>
> Earlier in the day, somebody asked me how he could obtain "today date"
> using cmake.
> I replied there was no direct way to obtain the date and I told him to use
> a macro I wrote.
> See
> http://viewvc.slicer.org/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/CMake/Slicer3TodayMacro.cmake?rev=11898&view=log
>
> Is there a better a way to retrieve "today date" ?
>


Not yet. But it would be a relatively easy feature to add to CMake if
somebody wants to sponsor it.

I envision a new cmake command, or an extension to an existing command (like
string with a NOW or NOW_UTC arg...) that returns a complete timestamp
string (something like "2010-08-04 14:00:44.235675 UTC") and/or the
components of such a string as a cmake list ("2010;8;4;14;0;44;235675;UTC").

Any sponsors out there? :-)


David



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> Jc
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