I was thinking it would just return the posix date via outlets or a list. Why would Pd need to save the previous date?
> On May 31, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Miller Puckette <[email protected]> wrote: > > Warning: [date] won't work so well on Raspberry Pi startup scripts (no > way to save date from boot to boot). > > I think the best vanilla way on linux or mac is to read /dev/random into > an array using soundfiler. > > cheers > Miller > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:00:40PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote: >> Yeah. I could use it as [date] is the only reason I have zexy installed >> right now. >> >>> On May 31, 2018, at 12:56 PM, hans w. koch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> wouldn´t it be more interesting/useful to incorporate a [date] object into >>> vanilla pd, from which it would be trivial to generate unique seeds, but >>> which also could be used in (many) other contexts? >>> >>> hans >>> >>> >>>> Am 31.05.2018 um 19:21 schrieb Dan Wilcox <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> It would relatively easy to add a right outlet to [random]. Another option >>>> might be an explicit [seed] object which could give you further control or >>>> perhaps some creation flags for [random] as well. >>>> >>>>>> you still have control on the seed... just seed it >>>>> >>>>> no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the >>>>> seed value. >>>>> >>>>>> or even seed it with the system time on creation? >>>>> >>>>> if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward >>>>> compatibility. >>>>> >>>>>> what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time? >>>>> >>>>> this could be an idea but one need the second outlet. >>>>> >>>>> ciao >>>>> -Marco Matteo Markidis >>>> >>>> -------- >>>> Dan Wilcox >>>> @danomatika >>>> danomatika.com >>>> robotcowboy.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>>> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>> >> >> -------- >> Dan Wilcox >> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> >> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> >> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> >> >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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