Release date metacommand?

[xlucas]

Not sure if something like this already exists, so I am either asking if there's something to do this or otherwise, I'm making a feature suggestion.

The thing is, it would be very useful if there were a metacommand or pre-processor macro that would return a string containing the date (and maybe the time) of building of the code. I'll present it here like a constant definition, but it may be very different:

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Dim release As String

release = __FB_BUILD_DATE__

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Print "My Program v1.2 - Released " & release
Print

Also, some run-time code could later parse this string and convert it to whatever format one may like. It could even not be a string, but several numbers. Anyway... is there anything that does this currently? Cheers!

[adeyblue]

They do already exist

__DATE__
__DATE_ISO__
__TIME__

[xlucas]

Great! Thank you so much!!
Where can a find a least of these definitions? I didn't find them when I was looking at the wiki. Surely not looking at the right place

[St_W]

https://freebasic.net/wiki/CatPgDddefines