I had a small database project that needed about a million records to stress test its performance and the front office application. For some reason, working with DateTime in C# is not always straightforward, and you might need some research and trial & errors until you can get something as simple as random date/time generation working. I’ve implemented a nice and simple method to help anyone and specially remember me if I ever need it again:
public DateTime GetRandomDate(DateTime from, DateTime to)
{
TimeSpan range = new TimeSpan(to.Ticks - from.Ticks);
return from + new TimeSpan((long) (range.Ticks * rnd.NextDouble()));
}
Hi.
So you can use DateTime.FromBinary(/* Your Random Number As Int64 */).
For
more information: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.frombinary.aspx
You’re correct, but that
doesn’t give you a random date between 2 other dates, you would need to serialize both the “from” and “to” dates and then randomize between those values. I believe this is quite
simpler.
Oops. You right. i didn’t pay attention to “From” and “To”. 😉
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Hi.
this solution is important with me.
thanks.
what is “rnd” ???
@fennoo
Its the random function.