but couldn´t that pi limitation worked around by a loadbang -delay combo to read a date, once the system has established one?
would need mention in the helpfile though.
The pi might not be connected to any network, in which case it will always start at Jan 1, 2000.
/dev/random may not be usable right at startup as it needs time to accumulate entropy, .dev/urandom is guaranteed to give some sort of random. Reading a few bytes from /dev/urandom into a table then combining them into a float or long int seems like a better idea.
There's an equivalent method in the WIndows API (SystemPrng), but it would have to be coded into an external since it's not a file like in linux.