[PD] Formatted datetime message

[Dan Wilcox]

+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 at lists.iem.at wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:29:37 +0100
> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com <mailto:reduzent at gmail.com>>
> To: pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Formatted datetime message
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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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