Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] how to generate a random date?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] how to generate a random date?
From: richard.carless_at_[hidden]
Date: 2010-05-14 04:47:36

You'll probably find it more simple to generate your random date in the 
seconds domain, and then convert that back to a date.

I don't know the specific boost function for this.

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Rich

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Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] how to generate a random date?

Thanks a lot, much more efficient...

SA

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Joost Kraaijeveld <
J.Kraaijeveld_at_[hidden]> wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 15:21 +0300, Saygin Arkan wrote:
> Hi,
> Does boost's date provide a random date generation?
> Or somehow should I generate my own date and then pass as a parameter?
>
>
> date GeneratorUtils::getRandomDate() {
>     int year, month ,day;
>     day = 1 + rand() % 29;
>     month = 1 + rand() % 11;
>     year = 1980 + rand() % 25;
>     date d(year, month, day);
>
>     return d;
> }

date GeneratorUtils::getRandomDate() {

return (date d(1980, 1, 1) + date_duration(rand());
}

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