And the answer is ... Although it is not so documented, apparently __TIMESTAMP__ is a C (not C++) -only feature.
I am further informed that __TIMESTAMP__ is not part of the C standard, so I am out of luck. Charles On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 16:52:20 -0500, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: >I am using XLC __TIMESTAMP__ for the first (!) time. The source file is in >UNIX and definitely has a timestamp. Here is the code > >static const char versionMsg[] = "blah blah, Built " __DATE__ " " __TIME__ ", >Source timestamp " __TIMESTAMP__ ; > >The message is displaying as > >blah blah, Built Jul 1 2023 14:12:35, Source timestamp Mon Jan 1 0:00:01 >1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN