You can build a random generator.
You can generate randrange(60) radom number between 0-60 (minutes)
use timedelta to add time to the actual date, in your case, it's 20/09/2013 13:..
build a generator random_date, with a starting date, and number of dates that you wanna generate.
from random import randrange
import datetime
def random_date(start,l):
current = start
while l >= 0:
curr = current + datetime.timedelta(minutes=randrange(60))
yield curr
l-=1
startDate = datetime.datetime(2013, 9, 20,13,00)
for x in random_date(startDate,10):
print x.strftime("%d/%m/%y %H:%M")
Output:
20/09/13 13:12
20/09/13 13:02
20/09/13 13:50
20/09/13 13:13
20/09/13 13:56
20/09/13 13:40
20/09/13 13:10
20/09/13 13:35
20/09/13 13:37
20/09/13 13:45
20/09/13 13:27
UPDATE
You can trick that by adding the difference number to the last date that you have generated, then reverse the over-all list.
You can also change the random number that you add everytime, to get the results that you want.
Your code would look like.
from random import randrange
import datetime
def random_date(start,l):
current = start
while l >= 0:
current = current + datetime.timedelta(minutes=randrange(10))
yield current
l-=1
startDate = datetime.datetime(2013, 9, 20,13,00)
for x in reversed(list(random_date(startDate,10))):
print x.strftime("%d/%m/%y %H:%M")
Output:
20/09/13 13:45
20/09/13 13:36
20/09/13 13:29
20/09/13 13:25
20/09/13 13:20
20/09/13 13:19
20/09/13 13:16
20/09/13 13:16
20/09/13 13:07
20/09/13 13:03
20/09/13 13:01
