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8.269 TIME — Time function ¶

Description:

Returns the current time encoded as an integer (in the manner of the function time(3) in the C standard library). This value is suitable for passing to CTIME — Convert a time into a string, GMTIME — Convert time to GMT info, and LTIME — Convert time to local time info.

This intrinsic is not fully portable, such as to systems with 32-bit INTEGER types but supporting times wider than 32 bits. Therefore, the values returned by this intrinsic might be, or become, negative, or numerically less than previous values, during a single run of the compiled program.

See TIME8 — Time function (64-bit), for information on a similar intrinsic that might be portable to more GNU Fortran implementations, though to fewer Fortran compilers.

Standard:

GNU extension

Class:

Function

Syntax:

RESULT = TIME()

Return value:

The return value is a scalar of type INTEGER(4).

See also:

DATE_AND_TIME — Date and time subroutine,
CTIME — Convert a time into a string,
GMTIME — Convert time to GMT info,
LTIME — Convert time to local time info,
MCLOCK — Time function,
TIME8 — Time function (64-bit)