Output several timestamps in ant

Question

The Ant buildfile snippet below is an attempt to simply output the time before and after each sql script is run. I cannot change the structure of the Ant targets (create-ta

Answer 1

Following on from @Niek's answer, we can build a macro that behaves like echo but with a time stamp

which will give output

test-timestamp:
     [echo] 2013-05-03 12:02:38> hi