Name
systime
Synopsis
systime( ) {G}
Return a time-of-day value in seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970, UTC.
Examples
Log the start and end times of a data-processing program:
BEGIN {
now = systime( )
mesg = strftime("Started at %m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S", now)
print mesg
}
process data ...
END {
now = systime( )
mesg = strftime("Ended at %m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S", now)
print mesg
}
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