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    The code snippet is intended to generate random dates within the past 10 years but always returns the current date. This is because std::rand() may return small values, providing only about 8 hours of random noise when used to subtract from the current time in seconds. To fix it, the code should combine the results of two std::rand() calls or use a better random number generator.

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    The code snippet is intended to generate random dates within the past 10 years but always returns the current date. This is because std::rand() may return small values, providing only about 8 hours of random noise when used to subtract from the current time in seconds. To fix it, the code should combine the results of two std::rand() calls or use a better random number generator.

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    I wrote this code snippet to generate random dates:

    std::time_t curr_time = time(0);


    std::time_t ten_years = 365 * 12 * 30 * 24 * 60;
    std::time_t rand_date = curr_time - std::rand() % ten_years;
    tm *ltm = std::localtime(&rand_date);
    std::cout << ltm->tm_year + 1900 << " " << ltm->tm_mon + 1 << " " << ltm->tm_mday
    << std::endl;
    However it always gives me the current date. What am i doing wrong?

    std::rand() may return rather small values, 0..32767 is the minimum range, and does
    so on some popular 32-bit platforms (MSVC among them). With time_t in seconds this
    only gives you about eight hours of random noise.

    Try combining the results from a pair of std::rand calls instead. E.g.
    (std::time_t) std::rand() * RAND_MAX + std::rand() or switch to a better random
    number generator.

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