<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I was thinking it would just return the posix date via outlets or a list. Why would Pd need to save the previous date?<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 31, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Miller Puckette <<a href="mailto:msp@ucsd.edu" class="">msp@ucsd.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Warning: [date] won't work so well on Raspberry Pi startup scripts (no<br class="">way to save date from boot to boot).<br class=""><br class="">I think the best vanilla way on linux or mac is to read /dev/random into<br class="">an array using soundfiler.<br class=""><br class="">cheers<br class="">Miller<br class=""><br class="">On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:00:40PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Yeah. I could use it as [date] is the only reason I have zexy installed right now.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 31, 2018, at 12:56 PM, hans w. koch <<a href="mailto:hansw.koch@gmail.com" class="">hansw.koch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">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?<br class=""><br class="">hans<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Am 31.05.2018 um 19:21 schrieb Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" class="">danomatika@gmail.com</a>>:<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">you still have control on the seed... just seed it<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the<br class="">seed value.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">or even seed it with the system time on creation?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward<br class="">compatibility.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">this could be an idea but one need the second outlet.<br class=""><br class="">ciao<br class="">-Marco Matteo Markidis<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">--------<br class="">Dan Wilcox<br class="">@danomatika<br class=""><a href="http://danomatika.com" class="">danomatika.com</a><br class="">robotcowboy.com<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list<br class="">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">--------<br class="">Dan Wilcox<br class="">@danomatika <<a href="http://twitter.com/danomatika" class="">http://twitter.com/danomatika</a>><br class=""><a href="http://danomatika.com" class="">danomatika.com</a> <<a href="http://danomatika.com/" class="">http://danomatika.com/</a>><br class=""><a href="http://robotcowboy.com" class="">robotcowboy.com</a> <<a href="http://robotcowboy.com/" class="">http://robotcowboy.com/</a>><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">_______________________________________________<br class=""><a href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" class="">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br class="">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" class="">https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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