Re: Read System Clock in Windows

Moikel said:

Hello,

I'm writing a program that requires that I generate random numbers. I'm
using the C rand()function. I want to use the system clock as a seed
for the function.

http://c-faq.com/lib/srand.html

How do I read the system clock in Windows?

time()

(Please
state any libraries I'm going to need etc).

The standard library, which is linked in by default so you don't need to
worry about it.

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