Name
systime
Synopsis
systime( )
Return number of seconds since midnight UTC, January 1, 1970.
Example
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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