Re: [PATCH v2] BaseTools/Scripts: Add GetUtcDateTime script.

["Leif Lindholm" <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 06:21:06PM +0800, Chasel Chiu wrote:
> 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>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chasel Chiu <chasel.chiu@intel.com>

Yeah, this looks a lot better, thanks.
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>

> ---
>  BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py b/BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..3cfb6ac2ae
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/BaseTools/Scripts/GetUtcDateTime.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
> +## @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
> +import argparse
> +
> +def Main():
> +    PARSER = argparse.ArgumentParser(
> +        description='Retrieves UTC date and time information (output ordering: year, date, time) - Version ' + VersionNumber)
> +    PARSER.add_argument('--year',
> +                        action='store_true',
> +                        help='Return UTC year of now. [Example output (2019): 39313032]')
> +    PARSER.add_argument('--date',
> +                        action='store_true',
> +                        help='Return UTC date MMDD of now. [Example output (7th August): 37303830]')
> +    PARSER.add_argument('--time',
> +                        action='store_true',
> +                        help='Return 24-hour-format UTC time HHMM of now. [Example output (14:25): 35323431]')
> +
> +    ARGS = PARSER.parse_args()
> +    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
> +        print ("ERROR: At least one argument is required!\n")
> +        PARSER.print_help()
> +
> +    today = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
> +    if ARGS.year:
> +        ReversedNumber = str(today.year)[::-1]
> +        print (''.join(hex(ord(HexString))[2:] for HexString in ReversedNumber))
> +    if ARGS.date:
> +        ReversedNumber = str(today.strftime("%m%d"))[::-1]
> +        print (''.join(hex(ord(HexString))[2:] for HexString in ReversedNumber))
> +    if ARGS.time:
> +        ReversedNumber = str(today.strftime("%H%M"))[::-1]
> +        print (''.join(hex(ord(HexString))[2:] for HexString in ReversedNumber))
> +
> +if __name__ == '__main__':
> +    Main()
> -- 
> 2.13.3.windows.1
>