I had a similar problem a while ago, Perry Cook suggested this, it might be of help:

One way to do it would be to pass it in
as an argument or other when you run ChucK.
This example uses stdin to read the output
of a <date> command in the shell:

// TestDate.ck  Perry R. Cook, Dec. 2014
ConsoleInput stdin;     // gonna read from here
stdin.prompt("") => now; // wait until something comes in
string datetime; // date and time
string datetimenow; // plus time since chuck invoked tacked on
while (stdin.more())  {  stdin.getLine() => datetime;  } // read input
datetime.setCharAt(9,'-'); // replace time string colons
datetime.setCharAt(12,'-'); // with dashes instead
datetime+"-"+Std.ftoa(now/second,4) => datetimenow; // tack on time since chuck invoked
<<< datetimenow >>>;
// If you want to continue making updated unique
// strings, just keep redoing the datetimenow line
1.5*second => now;
datetime+"-"+Std.ftoa(now/second,4) => datetimenow; // tack on time since chuck invoked
<<< datetimenow >>>;

To use this:

date +"%m%d%y-%T" | chuck TestDate.ck

Outputs (date-H-M-S-now):

"120614-15-00-09-0.0000" : (string)
"120614-15-00-09-1.5000" : (string)

On 2/05/2016 9:53 AM, Chiel ten Brinke wrote:

I would like to figure out the source of latency from chuck interacting
with another application via OSC. To do that, I want to print timestamps
of messages sent and received and compare these.
But here's the thing:

How do I print the absolute current time in chuck? The variable `now`
only seems to hold the time from the start of the process.

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