We accept patches™.
Also, the SVN log provides a little description of why it's the way it
is:
http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?view=revision&revision=50473
On 2013-05-05 18:25, J. C. Jones wrote:
  Salut,
 Since there already exists commands for getting the date via the
 command-line on all relevant host OS’s, why not use those built-in commands?
 From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On
 Behalf Of Sylvain Petreolle
 Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 6:41 AM
 To: ReactOS Development List
 Subject: Re: [ros-dev] getdate.exe being pulled from SVN repository
 getdate.exe needs to be available when we run configure, no build action can
 be done at this time.
 getdate.cmd/.c are here as sources only.
 Kind regards,
 Sylvain Petreolle
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 De : J. C. Jones <jaibuduvin(a)gmail.com>
 À : 'ReactOS Development List' <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
 Envoyé le : Jeudi 2 mai 2013 6h22
 Objet : [ros-dev] getdate.exe being pulled from SVN repository
 Small nit-pick:
 .\reactos\reactos\tools\getdate.exe is being pulled from SVN even though it
 is being generated by getdate.cmd and getdate.c that are both in the same
 directory?
 -John