Stephan Krull created MNGSITE-207: ------------------------------------- Summary: Explain maven.build.timestamp property Key: MNGSITE-207 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-207 Project: Maven Project Web Site Issue Type: Improvement Environment: Maven 3.2.2; JDK6 Windows 7 and Linux OS Reporter: Stephan Krull
The description of the default maven property named {{maven.build.timestamp}} at the [Introduction to the POM page|http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html] should be amended with the following facts: - The timestamp interpreted by Maven is always UTC (see [here|http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Convert-SNAPSHOT-timestamps-from-utc-to-local-time-tp104190p104191.html] and [here|http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/wrong-timestamp-in-file-name-after-deploy-tp132340p132341.html] and the [requirement here|http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5452] - The timestamp property will not be interpolated directly, one has to use another masking property to include the timestamp in i. e. resource files (see [here|http://java.dzone.com/tips/stamping-version-number-and] and [this issue|http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRESOURCES-99] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)