diff --git a/utils/textereo.awk b/utils/textereo.awk
index 3aac96a..51b88f9 100644
--- a/utils/textereo.awk
+++ b/utils/textereo.awk
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function ichar(str, pos, c) { # insert a character c into str at position pos
 }
 
 BEGIN { # we use 95-character subset from ASCII by default
-  "date +%N"|getline rseed;srand(rseed) # init the PRNG
+  srand() # init the PRNG
   getline # read the first line from the file to parse parameters
   WIDTH = int($1) # desired width of the image to generate
   PATLEN = int($2) # generated pattern length (must be between 8 and W/2)