Generate a positive number based on the current date's hash. - CSharp System

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Generate a positive number based on the current date's hash.

Demo Code

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using System.Threading;
using System.Text;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System;

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
        /// Generate a positive number based on the current date's hash.
        /// This number can be potentially used as an unique number, as
        /// long as there is at least 1 millisecond between calls.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>Positive Integer number</returns>
        public static int GetPositiveDateHash ()
        {
            int hash = DateTime.Now.GetHashCode ();
            
            /* Make it a positive number */
            if (hash < 0)
                hash = hash * -1;

            return hash;
        }
}

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