time - return number of seconds since 1970

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# NAME

time - return number of seconds since 1970

# SYNOPSIS

time

# DESCRIPTION

Returns the number of non-leap seconds since whatever time the system considers to be the epoch, suitable for feeding to `gmtime` and `localtime`. On most systems the epoch is 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970; a prominent exception being Mac OS Classic which uses 00:00:00, January 1, 1904 in the current local time zone for its epoch.

For measuring time in better granularity than one second, you may use either the Time::HiRes module (from CPAN, and starting from Perl 5.8 part of the standard distribution), or if you have gettimeofday(2), you may be able to use the `syscall` interface of Perl. See the perlfaq8 manpage for details.

time - return number of seconds since 1970