getting the current time as a string during build-time

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Hi, I'm trying to get a string that is the current datetime as of the build. I tried this library but it requires libc which I guess isn't available at build time?
https://github.com/frmdstryr/zig-datetime

I've gotten the flow into the game correctly, but just getting the time as a nice string is stumping me

_ = b.option([]const u8, "build_date", "date of the build");
const exe_options = b.addOptions();
exe.addOptions("build_options", exe_options);
exe_options.addOption([]const u8, "build_date", now_str[0..]);

[whole acorn]

could try https://github.com/nektro/zig-time

[whole acorn]

wait this requires libc? im not seeing that anywhere

[random zenith]

oh wait maybe it was because I was using c_allocator

[whole acorn]

lol