Installer get date

Using the Installer program, I can get the version of my program to be installed using this:


(set Program0 "WorkbenchExplorer")
...
(set vernum1 (getversion Program0)) (set Ver1 (/ vernum1 65536)) (set Rev1 (- vernum1 (* Ver1 65536)))
(set Version1 (cat Ver1 "." Rev1))

Is there a way to get the date string?

Not simply, you can use the 'earlier' command to check if the installed file is older than yours but it's too unreliable as filedates can be changed by the user, a bad battery, just by the user changing the files location.

You could use something like:

(run setenv filedate `list <filename> lformat "%D"`)

then use installers getenv function.

@Severin

I think he means the date from the version string.

So something like:
(run setenv version_full `version full <filename>`)

with some kind of code to parse the date part out.

(run "setenv filedate `list "Program0" lformat "%D"`")
(set Released (getenv "filedate"))

That worked! Thanks.

It does give dates like: Yesterday, Monday, not just the usual 23-Nov-14. But good enough.