It is very common to track and display the current time/date during a long build process. this will help to diagnose the bottleneck of a build or even just for info. but i found that the <tstamp> task is hard to be used to achieve. even if I include the <tstamp/> many times, seems just the first one is effective. This may be related to the fact that in ANT, the value of a property can't be dynamically changed (is my understanding right???) So, my questions are: -1- is there an easy way to display time/date dynamically during a build process? -2- in ANT, is there any dynamic property existed? Here, I specifies the "dynamic property" as a property whose value can be manipulated and referred during the build process. Jiong