rand() always returns 0.000

[hellochar]

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(void) {
    int a = 0;
    printf("GNU GCC compiler RAND_MAX: %i \n", RAND_MAX);
    time_t seed;
    time(&seed);
    srand((int) seed);
    printf("Seed is : %i \n", seed);
    for(a = 0; a < 20; a++) {
        printf("rand: %0.3f  \n", rand());
    }
    getchar();
}

Using Code::Blocks for my IDE, with the GNU GCC Compiler ported through MinGW. The code says that RAND_MAX is 32767, and the seed is some arbitrary number, but rand will always return 0.000. Any ideas? I'm thinking that the compiler didn't implement rand(), but that makes no sense at all considering how widely used it is.

[Aereshaa]

Unix specification says that rand() returns int, not double. Here. You are currently displaying it as a double-precision floating-point.

[MeTh0Dz]

Also it's not necessary to do all that with time.

Just do this...

srand(time(NULL));

[hellochar]

oh... that was stupid of me. thanks guys, 's working now