The Pi always boots at a constant date (no battery to keep a clock running).
cheers M On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:14:08PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote: > I was thinking it would just return the posix date via outlets or a list. Why > would Pd need to save the previous date? > > > On May 31, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Miller Puckette <m...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > > > > Warning: [date] won't work so well on Raspberry Pi startup scripts (no > > way to save date from boot to boot). > > > > I think the best vanilla way on linux or mac is to read /dev/random into > > an array using soundfiler. > > > > cheers > > Miller > > > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:00:40PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote: > >> Yeah. I could use it as [date] is the only reason I have zexy installed > >> right now. > >> > >>> On May 31, 2018, at 12:56 PM, hans w. koch <hansw.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> 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? > >>> > >>> hans > >>> > >>> > >>>> Am 31.05.2018 um 19:21 schrieb Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com>: > >>>> > >>>> 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. > >>>> > >>>>>> you still have control on the seed... just seed it > >>>>> > >>>>> no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out > >>>>> the > >>>>> seed value. > >>>>> > >>>>>> or even seed it with the system time on creation? > >>>>> > >>>>> if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward > >>>>> compatibility. > >>>>> > >>>>>> what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time? > >>>>> > >>>>> this could be an idea but one need the second outlet. > >>>>> > >>>>> ciao > >>>>> -Marco Matteo Markidis > >>>> > >>>> -------- > >>>> Dan Wilcox > >>>> @danomatika > >>>> danomatika.com > >>>> robotcowboy.com > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >>>> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >>> > >> > >> -------- > >> Dan Wilcox > >> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> > >> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> > >> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > >> > >> > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list