From fbaa0becc787e73fa539e0d497b0d74be27c9534 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:18:27 +0100
Subject: Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API

---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
index e001058e19..2cc621ffc3 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml
@@ -70,12 +70,11 @@
       <desc>
         <p>Seeds random number generation with integer values in the process
           dictionary, and returns the old state.</p>
-        <p>One way of obtaining a seed is to use the BIF <c>now/0</c>:</p>
+        <p>One easy way of obtaining a unique value to seed with is to:</p>
         <code type="none">
-          ...
-          {A1,A2,A3} = now(),
-          random:seed(A1, A2, A3),
-          ...</code>
+          random:seed(<seealso marker="erts:erlang#phash2/1">erlang:phash2</seealso>([<seealso marker="erts:erlang#node/0">node()</seealso>]),
+	              <seealso marker="erts:erlang#monotonic_time/0">erlang:monotonic_time()</seealso>,
+		      <seealso marker="erts:erlang#unique_integer/0">erlang:unique_integer()</seealso>)</code>
       </desc>
     </func>
     <func>
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