Random time generator
One outcome in 1,440
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A random time of day, to the minute, on a 24-hour clock. There are 1,440 minutes in a day and each is equally likely.
How to generate a random time
The common use is sampling: picking observation times, scheduling random checks, or building test data that is not clustered on the hour. Real timestamps in most systems are heavily clumped; on the hour, on the half hour, during working hours, so uniformly random times make good adversarial test data precisely because they land in the gaps. If you want times inside a working window rather than across the whole day, draw several and discard the ones outside it; the result is still uniform within the range you keep.
Questions
Yes, one in 1,440. There is no bias toward working hours or round numbers.
Not directly on this page. Drawing several and keeping those in range gives a uniform result within that range.
No, times are to the minute.
Twenty-four hour, so 13:05 rather than 1:05 pm.
Yes, with a seed.