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8021 :: How to get the compile time as a const string?

• leeooox (orginal) [2021-05-24T09:44:40+02:00] view original

  Hi All,

  I want to record the executable compile time to be hard coded. eg. If the executable is complied on May, 24th. It should be always May, 24th.

  import times
  const compileTime = "Release Date : " & $now().format("YYYY-MM-dd")
  Run

  However, the compiler give an error message C:worksoftwarenim-1.4.6_x64nim-1.4.6libpuretimes.nim(908, 5) Error: cannot 'importc' variable at compile time; getSystemTimeAsFileTime

  If I am doing this way, compile will be OK, but the compileTime is changed everyday with pc time.

  import times
  let compileTime = "Release Date : " & $now().format("YYYY-MM-dd")
  Run

  Any method to solve this problem? thanks.

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• aEverr (orginal) [2021-05-24T09:52:02+02:00] view original

  https://nim-lang.org/docs/system.html#CompileTime There is already a constant with the compile time

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• leeooox (orginal) [2021-05-24T09:57:23+02:00] view original

  Thanks, this did solved my problem.

  CompileDate/CompileTime is what I am looking for

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