Preferably as a long.
All the example I can find are getting the date/time as a string and not any scalar value. 🙂
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Preferably as a long.
All the example I can find are getting the date/time as a string and not any scalar value. 🙂
If you really want the current time as a long, try
System.currentTimeMillis(). Alternatively, you can usenew Date().getTime().However, using the current time as a random number generator seed is a very poor choice (at least, if you are using the random numbers for anything important, such as cryptography). You may wish to consider using a random source such as
/dev/urandom(if available on your platform).