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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/_time.tm.html
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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 _time Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Get the current time in seconds

Syntax

ULong_Type _time ()

Description

The _time function returns the number of elapsed seconds since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970. The ctime function may be used to convert this into a string representation.

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Last modified: December 2006



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