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From: Greg M Johnson
Subject: Date or time?
Date: 30 Dec 2000 21:34:41
Message: <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.

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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Date or time?
Date: 30 Dec 2000 21:41:30
Message: <chrishuff-4B736C.21425530122000@news.povray.org>

In article <3a4e9b41$1@news.povray.org>, "Greg M. Johnson" 
<"gregj;-)56590\""@aol.c;-)om> wrote:

> Any way to access the date or time?  One application would be a
> self-seeding, truly random rand based of current mins & secs.

Not in the official version, but MegaPOV has functions to do this.
http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: Re: Date or time?
Date: 30 Dec 2000 23:54:04
Message: <3a4ebbec@news.povray.org>

Greg M. Johnson <"gregj;-)56590""@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
<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.


Someone came up with a method of doing this in official POV-Ray.  Check in
the .text.scene-files and .binaries.scene-files groups.

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Mark

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From: Bill Dewitt
Subject: Re: Date or time?
Date: 30 Dec 2000 23:57:58
Message: <3a4ebcd6$1@news.povray.org>

"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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From: Bill Dewitt
Subject: Re: Date or time?
Date: 31 Dec 2000 00:10:22
Message: <3a4ebfbe$1@news.povray.org>

"Bill Dewitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote :
>
> /// povini
>   Pre_Frame_Command=C:\Command.com /c c:\getinfo.bat %s %n %k

    I should note that this command supplies more than just the time. %s %n
and %k supply info to other parts of the batch file not copied here.

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