[PD] Formatted datetime message

[Roman Haefeli]

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

> 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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