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Generate a random date between given start and end dates using python programming

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Generate a random date between given start and end dates

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YasminRadwan26
2022-05-05
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import random
import time

def getRandomDate(startDate, endDate ):
    print("Printing random date between", startDate, " and ", endDate)
    randomGenerator = random.random()
    dateFormat = '%m/%d/%Y'

    startTime = time.mktime(time.strptime(startDate, dateFormat))
    endTime = time.mktime(time.strptime(endDate, dateFormat))

    randomTime = startTime + randomGenerator * (endTime - startTime)
    randomDate = time.strftime(dateFormat, time.localtime(randomTime))
    return randomDate

print ("Random Date = ", getRandomDate("1/1/2016", "12/12/2018"))

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