INCLUDETIME: Creation Time in Object File

Tools

Compiler, Assembler, Linker, or Librarian

Synonym

None

Syntax
  INCLUDETIME=(ON|OFF)   
Arguments

ON: Include time information into object file

OFF: Do not include time information into object file

Default

ON

Description

Each object file contains a time stamp indicating the creation time and date as strings. When a tool creates a new file, the file gets a new time stamp entry.

This behavior may be undesired if you must perform a binary file compare for Software Quality Assurance reasons. Even if the information in two object files is the same, the files do not match exactly as the time stamps are not identical. To avoid such problems, set this variable to OFF. When set to OFF, the time-stamp strings in the object file for date and time are "none" in the object file.

Retrieve the time stamp from the object files using the decoder.

Example

INCLUDETIME=OFF

See also