[Haskell-cafe] Include creation date in Haddock documentation

[David Waern]

2010/1/29 Dennis Walter <dennis.walter at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if it is possible to have Haddock include the date and time
> at which the documentation was generated. Ideally this should only
> occur on index.html, but to have it in any file (e.g. in the footer)
> would be OK, too. I couldn't find any information about dates in the
> documentation.
>
> Documentation is created via Cabal:
>  cabal haddock --executables --hyperlink-source
>
> Right now I include a token in the Cabal "description" field of the
> package, and sed-replace it afterwards, which is of course ugly.

It's not possible at the moment AFAIK, but we could add it. I've
created a ticket:

  http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/131

David