Re: Date/Time Functions

Hello Ann,

According to the NAnt document, for most of the DateTime functions, the output is typically "formatted with the DateTimeFormatInfo for the invariant culture." I think the proper fix is to allow an IFormatProvider (ie DatetimeFormatInfo) to be passed as an (optional) argument to the NAnt DateTime functions. Similar to DateTime.ToString(IFormatProvider) in the .NET Framework SDK:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ht77y576.aspx

As a temporarily workaround, could you use NAnt's string::pad-left() function instead? As an example:

Build file:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="test">
  <echo message="month: ${datetime::get-month(datetime::now())}" />

  <!-- left pad with "0" if length is less than 2 -->
  <echo message="month: ${string::pad-left(datetime::get-month(datetime::now()), 2, 0)}" /> 
</project>

Output:
     [echo] month: 3
     [echo] month: 03

I admit it's a bit of a hack, but it get's the job done (until a proper fix is implemented). I hope this helps.

Regards,
Charles

--- On Mon, 3/29/10, Ann Chaplinskaya <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Ann Chaplinskaya <[email protected]>
Subject: [NAnt-users] Date/Time Functions
To: [email protected]
Received: Monday, March 29, 2010, 3:01 AM




Hello 
all,
 
In my Nant script I 
use datetime::get-month, datetime::get-hour functions and others DateTime 
functions, but the dates  are represented in  yyyy/m/d/ and  h/m/s format (eg 2010_3_2,  3-2-6), but I 
need  yyyy/mm/dd , hh/mm/ss ,  like this  2010_03_02  03-02-06.
 
Can anybody help? 
What should I change? 
 
Regards,
Anna
 

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