At 5:31 PM +1000 8/23/00, Martin Sevior wrote:
>In Unix I can do
>
>srand( (UT_uint32) time())
>
>Which works great. time() returns the number seconds since 1970. Is there
>a similar function in windows? I just need a function that is guarenteed
>to give a different result on every call. Since time always increases this
>will always work :-)
>
Both srand() and time() are standard C library routines and
should work just fine on all platforms (definitely Windows and Mac
OS).
Leonard
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