Random Time of the Day

What this generator does

This produces random times of day within a window you set. Give it a start time, an end time, and how many you want, and it returns that many random times inside that range. It is handy whenever you need clock times chosen at random rather than picking them yourself.

How to use it

1. Start Time and End Time. The window the times should fall within, entered as hours and minutes.
2. Number of Times. How many to generate.

Press Calculate and the list of random times appears.

Setting the window

The two times are what keep the results useful. Rather than drawing from the whole 24 hours, you pen the times into the stretch that makes sense for your purpose. Set 09:00 to 17:00 and every time lands inside a working day. Set an evening window and they fall in the evening. Choosing the window thoughtfully is how you get times that fit the situation instead of landing in the small hours of the morning.

What people use it for

Scheduling and testing, mostly. Assigning random appointment or shift times across a working day, spreading tasks or checks through a window so they are not all bunched together, or generating sample timestamps for testing something that expects times within business hours. Anywhere you want a batch of clock times scattered fairly across a set range, this does the scattering for you.

Questions people ask

Can it return several times at once?

Yes. Set the number of times and it generates that many together, all within your chosen window.

Can I keep the times to working hours?

Yes, that is what the window is for. Set the start and end to your working hours and every result falls inside them.

What format are the times in?

They come back as hours, minutes, and seconds, so each result is a precise time of day within your range.

Can the window cross midnight?

The start time needs to be before the end time, so for a window that runs past midnight you would generate the two parts separately, before and after midnight.