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Method time()
- Method
time
int time()
int time(int(1..1) one)
float time(int(2..) t)
- Description
This function returns the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, 1 Jan 1970.
The second syntax does not query the system for the current
time. Instead the latest done by the pike process is returned
again. That's slightly faster but can be wildly inaccurate. Pike
queries the time internally when a thread has waited for
something, typically in sleep or in a backend (see
Pike.Backend ).
The third syntax can be used to measure time more preciely than one
second. It return how many seconds has passed since t . The precision
of this function varies from system to system.
- See also
ctime() , localtime() , mktime() , gmtime() ,
System.gettimeofday , gethrtime
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