dates — Returns as a string the date and time specified.
itime -- the time is seconds since the start of the epoch. If omited or negative the current time is taken.
Sir -- the date and time as a string.
Here is an example of the dates opcode. It uses the file dates.csd.
Example 205. Example of the dates opcode.
<CsoundSynthesizer> <CsOptions> ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform -odac ;;;realtime audio out ;-iadc ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below: ; -o dates.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform </CsOptions> <CsInstruments> sr = 44100 ksmps = 32 nchnls = 2 0dbfs = 1 seed 0 ;each time different seed instr 1 ;;generating a different filename each time csound renders itim date Stim dates itim Syear strsub Stim, 20, 24 Smonth strsub Stim, 4, 7 Sday strsub Stim, 8, 10 iday strtod Sday Shor strsub Stim, 11, 13 Smin strsub Stim, 14, 16 Ssec strsub Stim, 17, 19 Sfilnam sprintf "%s_%s_%02d_%s_%s_%s.wav", Syear, Smonth, iday, Shor,Smin, Ssec ;;rendering with random frequency, amp and pan, and writing to disk ifreq random 400, 1000 iamp random .1, 1 ipan random 0, 1 asin oscils iamp, ifreq, 0 aL, aR pan2 asin, ipan fout Sfilnam, 14, aL, aR outs aL, aR printf_i "File '%s' written to the same directory as this CSD file is!\n", 1, Sfilnam endin </CsInstruments> <CsScore> i 1 0 1 </CsScore> </CsoundSynthesizer>
Its output should include lines like this:
File '2011_Jan_05_19_14_46.wav' written to the same directory as this CSD file is!
Closing file '/home/user/csound/Output/2011_Jan_05_19_14_46.wav'...