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 data as strings. Whenever a new file is created by one of the tools, the new file gets a new time stamp entry.

This behavior may be undesired if (for Software Quality Assurance reasons) a binary file compare has to be performed. 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. In this case, the time stamp strings in the object file for date and time are "none" in the object file.

The time stamp is retrieved from the object files using the decoder.

Example

INCLUDETIME=OFF

See also

Environment variables :