From:	"Randy" <umgrang0 AT cc DOT umanitoba DOT ca>
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Subject:	Re: srand()
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> You do realise that 'time' only returns the time accurate to the second,
and
>so, if your 645 runs were consecutive, this wasn't a very good test?

Can you suggest what to use instead?

This is what I have used, but wondered if there was a better (simpler) way
to do this:

void randomizer() {
  time_t current_time;
  struct tm *t;
  int seed;
  current_time = time(NULL);
  t = localtime(&current_time);
  srand(t->tm_sec + 60*t->tm_min + t->tm_hour*60*60);
}

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