I ran into an issue with Hal where every so often I need to know the date, just a quick question. Hal came back with an enormous definition of the date. Disappointing. So, I wrote a small plug-in for Hal to give the date when asked.. and nothing else.. strange thing is, vrFreewill is supposed to do this, but it works only occasionally and even sometimes stores the information, which leads to confusion. The command to give the Date is actually already in the HalBrain,so I'm surprised I couldn't find anything else on this or it hasn't been more widely used in other plug-ins. Anyway, here it is. Ask the date function. Put it in the HAL installation file, activate it in the plug-in panel, now you've got the date at your finger tips.. and at the corner of your screen, but don't worry about that. Feel free to improve. If you happen to make it even more effective somehow, please share.
-Spitfire