On May 31, 2018, at 1:16 PM, Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:

The Pi always boots at a constant date (no battery to keep a clock running).

cheers
M
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:14:08PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote:

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 <msp@ucsd.edu> 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 <hansw.koch@gmail.com> 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 <danomatika@gmail.com>:

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

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