"Greg M. Johnson" <"gregj;-)56590\""@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
news:3a4e9b41$1@news.povray.org...
> Any way to access the date or time?  One application would be a
> self-seeding, truly random rand based of current mins & secs.
>

I use something like this...

/// batch file "getinfo.bat"
@echo off
cd C:\
echo " > gottime.txt
echo | more | time | find "Current" >> gottime.txt
echo "; >> gottime.txt

/// povini
  Pre_Frame_Command=C:\Command.com /c c:\getinfo.bat %s %n %k

/// pov file
#fopen MyFile "c:\gottime.txt" read
#read (MyFile,MyInfo)
#fclose MyFile
#declare Seconds   = val(substr(MyInfo, 28, strlen(MyInfo)-29));
#declare Minutes    = val(substr(MyInfo, 25, strlen(MyInfo)-29));

#declare R1 = seed((Minutes/Seconds)*10000) ;

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