On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:09 PM, hans w. koch <hansw.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> but couldn´t that pi limitation worked around by a loadbang -delay combo > to read a date, once the system has established one? > would need mention in the helpfile though. > > The pi might not be connected to any network, in which case it will always start at Jan 1, 2000. /dev/random may not be usable right at startup as it needs time to accumulate entropy, .dev/urandom is guaranteed to give some sort of random. Reading a few bytes from /dev/urandom into a table then combining them into a float or long int seems like a better idea. There's an equivalent method in the WIndows API (SystemPrng), but it would have to be coded into an external since it's not a file like in linux. Martin
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