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From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To: Robert Wall <rsw@vsat.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 at 09:16 SAST, Robert Wall wrote:
>
> I know this is a bit off-topic for this list, but is there a function
> anywhere that tells the number of seconds that have passed since the
> epoch?

gettimeofday(2)?

Or did you mean a way of getting it from the shell command line?  In that
case, try:  date +%s

-- V

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