How to generate a random seed at a 24 hour interval

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Hello!

My game is played locally and I can generate a map with a random seed value. I want my users to all have the same seed and after 24 hours the seed changes. So that everybody can play the same map and send in their high scores. How can i randomize a seed every 24 hours? How do i make sure that different time zones still apply to the 24 hour seed?

I do not have a server or something similar that can run and change the seed. The game is only played locally on the clients computer except from sending in a high score after each level.

Thanks in advance

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There’s a lot of good info at Microsoft’s page regarding time zones and relative time.

If you wish to make your time zone the baseline, for example, determine the time offset for it relative to UTC (the absolute baseline, in this case), then use that as the basis for a second time conversion for the player.