+1 This is what I was going to suggest. I agree it would be nice to have some sort of date/time utility built in, especially as it's part of C / Posix as far as I know.

On Mar 18, 2021, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 09:57 +0100, Nicolas Montgermont wrote:

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I was wondering what is the best (as in easiest/cleaner/vaniller) way to produce a filename with formatted date inside these days. producing that kind of message with a bang: YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS

I don't think there is a vanilla way to get date and time. Zexy comes with [date] and [time]. You could use [makefilename %02d] to create zero-padded symbols from the different outlets and use a message box to glue the whole string together:

[symbol $1$2$3-$4$5$6(

Roman

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