Is there a way to use the current date in the POM? Take a look at the buildnumber plugin. It can be used to generate a build date each time I do a build, as follows: org.codehaus.mojo maven-buildnumber-plugin 0.9.4 {0,date,yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} timestamp false false validate create pom.xml or settings.xml? What is the best practice configuration … Read more