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## dates

dates — Returns as a string the date and time specified.

## Description

Returns as a string the date and time specified.

## Syntax

    Sir dates [ itime]

## Initialization

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.

## Examples

Here is an example of the dates opcode. It uses the file dates.csd.

Example 168. 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'...

## See Also

date

## Credits

Author: John ffitch
University of Bath/Codemist Ltd.
Bath, UK
December 2006

New in Csound version 5.05

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