__RandomDate

Also documented in context in the full Functions and Variables reference.

The RandomDate function returns a random date that lies between the given start date and end date values.

Name	Required	Description
Time format	No	Format string for DateTimeFormatter (default yyyy-MM-dd)
Start date	No	The start date, the default is now
End date	Yes	The end date
Locale to use for format	No	The string format of a locale. The language code must be lowercase. The country code must be uppercase. The separator must be an underscore, e.g. en_EN. See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javase7locales-334809.html. If omitted, by default the function uses the Apache JMeter locale one.
Name of variable	No	The name of the variable to set.

Examples:

\${__RandomDate(,,2050-07-08,,)}

will return a random date between now and 2050-07-08. For example 2039-06-21

\${__RandomDate(dd MM yyyy,,08 07 2050,,)}

will return a random date with a custom format like 04 03 2034

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