I have a Maven2 project, and I need to add, in a properties file, the current version and the current date. For the current version, I've used ${project.version}, which works correctly. My question is how can I set the current date (i.e. the date when the build is done by Maven2) in my properties file: client.version=Version ${project.version} client.build=??? (in addition, if I can specify the fo