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Date:      Tue, 8 Dec 1998 17:58:54 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Don Read <sysop@calcasieu.com>, Robert Wall <rsw@vsat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hello
Message-ID:  <19981208175854.A38719@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981208175501.007fba40@mail>; from "Don Read" on Tue Dec  8 17:55:01 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981208091531.8796A-100000@bridge.millstream. net> <3.0.5.32.19981208175501.007fba40@mail>

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In the last episode (Dec 08), Don Read said:
> back on 09:16 AM 12/8/98 +0000, you said:
> >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?
> >
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>    printf( "%u\n" , time )

at a shell prompt:

secs=`date +%s`

in C:

time_t secs = time(NULL);


	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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