How can I add a timestamp to the end of a cron job's output file name?

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I want to track each crontab output to separated file. Normally, I use this as crontab entry: Now, I want to make it to write instead of , to I could get the date part, using this: Now, how do I stick this TIMESTAMP into output file?

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1  *    * * *   root    php /mix/dostuff.php > /tmp/dostuff.txt

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