Random time generator

A random time of day, to the minute, on a 24-hour clock. There are 1,440 minutes in a day and each is equally likely.

The common use is sampling: picking observation times, scheduling random checks, or building test data that is not clustered on the hour. Real timestamps in most systems are heavily clumped — on the hour, on the half hour, during working hours — so uniformly random times make good adversarial test data precisely because they land in the gaps. If you want times inside a working window rather than across the whole day, draw several and discard the ones outside it; the result is still uniform within the range you keep.