RE: [PHP] Re: Random numbers in a cronned script?

if you seed it with unix time then you'll alway be seeding with something different in most cases, the random numbers that are generated will be random enough just my AU2c worth Martin -----Original Message----- From: lallous [mailto:phplist@lgwm.org] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 6:51 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: Random numbers in a cronned script? Yes, you're right about that point since the seed in most cases is computed from system time => increasing probability of having same number @ the same request time... you can change the seed with the time() too (not all days are the same). hope to hear others' opinions too. Elias "Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif@buyer-brokerage.com> wrote in message news:3D819139.5080308@buyer-brokerage.com... > I'm wondering if random numbers in a cronned script would be anywhere > near random (I know that rand() isn't true random, but I don't want > every number to be the same...)? Since the number is seeded from > time... and cron runs by time... > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php