diff --git a/reference/array/functions/shuffle.xml b/reference/array/functions/shuffle.xml
index fbf51af382..56c3b02f55 100644
--- a/reference/array/functions/shuffle.xml
+++ b/reference/array/functions/shuffle.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.19 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.20 $ -->
 <refentry xml:id="function.shuffle" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>shuffle</refname>
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
 $numbers = range(1, 20);
-srand((float)microtime() * 1000000);
 shuffle($numbers);
 foreach ($numbers as $number) {
     echo "$number ";