Question

I’m looking for some succinct, modern C# code to generate a random date between Jan 1 1995 and the current date.

I’m thinking some solution that utilizes Enumerable.Range somehow may make this more succinct.

Answer 1

private Random gen = new Random(); DateTime RandomDay() {     DateTime start = new DateTime(1995, 1, 1);     int range = (DateTime.Today - start).Days;                return start.AddDays(gen.Next(range)); } 

For better performance if this will be called repeatedly, create the start and gen (and maybe even range) variables outside of the function.