What is the best way to generate random dates?

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#1

Hey developers, the title pretty much says it all, I’ve been trying to make a random date generator (for example 3rd May 2073) but I’ve been running into issues regarding the best way to generate random dates, I’ve tried using math.random to generate a random number that can then be converted into a readable date with os.date, but the problem is if I make the maximum number in the random function too high, I end up with an invalid argument error. And so currently I’m very limited with dates that can be generated.

#2

Instead of doing that, you can go much simpler by generating the day, month and year one by one.

local day = math.random(0, 32)
local month = math.random(0, 13)
local year = math.random(1500, 7000)

local generatedDate = day.."/"..month.."/"..year

print(generatedDate)

PS: I actually dont know if math.random generates between or it includes the numbers provided, so you should fix the code if there are problems

#3

You can do it like this

math.random(1,99999)..math.random(1,99999)
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#4

Thank you! After making some minor modifications (such as making it so it can’t generate February 31st for example) it works perfectly.

#5

Your solution also works, so thank you!