The above xml puts the foll line into my.properties file: adate=2000/11/02 23\:41 which is today's date and time Its there in the documentation. -----Original Message----- From: fm [mailto:Fabian.Moerchen@math.uni-giessen.de] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:07 PM To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Get current Date/Time hi is there a way to get the current date and time into a variable? i want to create a target backup that tars a snapshot of the project and uses the timestamp in the filename. bye fabian