getting timestamp in CI/CD

Question

Hi All,

I need to get the current timestamp in a CI/CD pipeline script (yml). I tried to do it like this:

- buildtimestamp=$(date +%N)     
        - echo $buildtimestamp                                                                                                  
         - mvn -s maven_settings.xml -Dbuild_timestamp=$buildtimestamp -DskipTests=true -Ddocker_registry=$docker_registry_dev -P docker docker:build

I have a couple of projects, some projects working well, but there are three projects, which print an empty string. I tried to use - export buildtimestamp=$(date +%N), but it didn't help.

Is there any other method to get the current timestamp?

thx

Zamek

zamek z · Answer

Hi Thomas,

Yes I added like this:

- buildtimestamp=$(date +%N)     
- echo $buildtimestamp                                                                                                  
- mvn -s maven_settings.xml -Dbuild_timestamp=$buildtimestamp -DskipTests=true -Ddocker_registry=$docker_registry_dev -P docker docker:build

Nowaday I changed %+N to %+s which is the epoch time (N means nanoseconds only). Since I changed to %+s there was no problem.

thx,

Zamek

Tom Bradshaw · Answer

Hi @zamek z

Can you add `echo $(date +%N)` (or whatever the buildtimestamp operation is) to those projects that are failing to confirm that the operation can be successfully called.

Cheers,

Tom