23 Jan
2009
23 Jan
'09
9:33 a.m.
e deleflie wrote:
Is there some easy way of generating the epoch time in pd?
I know about Zexy's [date] and [time] objects ..... they could do it with a bit of work.
or ..... does anyone know of a way to generate some unique string (or number) .... its just so that I can hit a bang at anytime and record the current audio output into a file, without having to worry about the file name.
in this case i definitely would use [date]+[time]+[random].
the problem with a real epoch time is, that Pd cannot handle it as a number (due to restrictions of 32bit float which is Pd's internal numeric format), so it would have to be a symbol, which actually limits the usefulness to generating UID.
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