gHacks technology news » date generation http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Random date and time value generator http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/10/random-date-and-time-value-generator/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/10/random-date-and-time-value-generator/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:58:17 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/10/random-date-and-time-value-generator/ There are tons of applications and other instances where you need to either test using dates, or you actually need random dates. If you want to write posts on your blog ahead of time, and post them randomly between the 1st of March and the 2nd of April, the random date and time value generator is the tool for you.

I love that this is such a simple tool, yet so powerful and customizable. You can enter exact start and end dates (down to seconds), select the number of dates you need, and you can even alter the format to your liking. This is great for international users, and for testing different input methods as well.

The data is then presented in simple text form, one date after another. This makes populating Excel tables super easy, no formatting to worry about, just copy paste. I wish they would make many more tools like this, this date generator is something that has saved me many hours of work.

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