Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2012/9/27 David Cole <david.c...@kitware.com>:
> > Hmmmm. Good idea.
> > 
> > Should we add a new command for this? Or should it be a sub-command of
> > "string(" like RANDOM is?
> > 
> > And... while we're at it, I've always thought we should add the
> > ability to get the creation/modified/access times from a file via the
> > CMake file command. If we allow getting the "current" time, we should
> > leverage some of the same transformation-to-string code in the file
> > command to get the various times associated with a file.
> > 
> > What do other devs here think:
> > New command or string sub-command for this functionality?
> 
> string sub-command for me, and agreed with Brad as well
> for the "namespace" thing.
> 
> agreed with file(...) extension as well.
> 
> that said isn't the "TIMESTAMP" misleading?
> shouldn't it be called "DATE" instead?

I would second that.

Eike

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