Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] BaseTools/Scripts: Add GetUtcDateTimer script.

["Bob Feng" <bob.c.feng@intel.com>]

Patch looks good.

Reviewed-by:  Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of Chiu, Chasel
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 8:58 PM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Feng, Bob C <bob.c.feng@intel.com>; Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
Subject: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] BaseTools/Scripts: Add GetUtcDateTimer script.

REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2067

A script that can return UTC date and time in ascii format which is convenient for patching build time information in any binary.

Cc: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chasel Chiu <chasel.chiu@intel.com>
---
 BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)

diff --git a/BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py b/BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b25a0a867
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+## @file
+#  Get current UTC date and time information and output as ascii code.
+#
+#  Copyright (c) 2019, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR> # #
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent #
+
+VersionNumber = '0.1'
+import sys
+import datetime
+
+def Usage():
+    print ("GetUtcDateTime - Version " + VersionNumber)
+    print ("Usage:")
+    print ("GetUtcDateTime [type]")
+    print ("  --year:            Return UTC year of now")
+    print ("                     Example output (2019): 39313032")
+    print ("  --date:            Return UTC date MMDD of now")
+    print ("                     Example output (7th August): 37303830")
+    print ("  --time:            Return 24-hour-format UTC time HHMM of now")
+    print ("                     Example output (4:25): 35323430")
+
+def Main():
+  if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+    Usage()
+    return 0
+
+  today = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+  if sys.argv[1].strip().lower() == "--year":
+    ReversedNumber = str(today.year)[::-1]
+    print (''.join(hex(ord(HexString))[2:] for HexString in ReversedNumber))
+    return 0
+  if sys.argv[1].strip().lower() == "--date":
+    ReversedNumber = str(today.strftime("%m%d"))[::-1]
+    print (''.join(hex(ord(HexString))[2:] for HexString in ReversedNumber))
+    return 0
+  if sys.argv[1].strip().lower() == "--time":
+    ReversedNumber = str(today.strftime("%H%M"))[::-1]
+    print (''.join(hex(ord(HexString))[2:] for HexString in ReversedNumber))
+    return 0
+  else:
+    Usage()
+    return 0
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(Main())
--
2.13.3.windows.1