Why is TIMESTAMP misleading?
Per default it currently outputs year, month, day, hour, minute and second.
This includes both a date (a day on a calendar) as well as time (time of
day).
"Timestamp" I'd define as both date and time bound to an event (here the
call or the (sub-)command).
"Date" I'd consider inaccurate since it implies that there is no time
resolution.
"Time" I'd say would be slightly more accurate since it has higher
precision and it matches the naming in C (time_t, tm, strftime ...).
"DateTime" Is accurate and has precedence (e.g. SQL) but is (IMO) not as
pretty.
To list them in order of personal preference this would for me give:
Timestamp, DateTime, Time, Date
Nils
On 09/27/2012 07:41 PM, 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?
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