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Perl Programming/Keywords/time
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Perl tied times Keywords
The time keyword
time returns the number of non-leap seconds since the beginning of the epoch, which is on most systems 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
Syntax
time
Examples
The code
$time = time;
print $time . " s, " . $time/60 . " min, " . $time/3600 . " h\n";
print $time/86400 . " d, " . $time/2629743.84 . " months, " . $time/31556926.08 . " y\n"; returns on Windows something like: 1424097849 s, 23734964.15 min, 395582.735833333 h
16482.6139930556 d, 541.534816942475 months, 45.1279014118729 y
See also
alarm
localtime
sleep
times
Perl tied times Keywords