Ant Current Date

Problem : How to get current date in Ant script?
Solution : example code snippet below :

<!--target for current date -->
<target name="curdate">
 <tstamp>
  <format property="curDate" pattern="yyyy MMMM dd HH:mm:ss" locale="en"/>
 </tstamp>
 <!--echoing cuurent date -->
 <echo message="Current time and date: ${curDate}" />
 <!--setting current date in a property -->
 <property name="starttime" value="${start}"/>
</target>