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<h3 class="section">8.243 <code>TIME</code> &mdash; Time function</h3>
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<dt><em>Description</em>:<dd>Returns the current time encoded as an integer (in the manner of the
function <code>time(3)</code> in the C standard library). This value is
suitable for passing to <code>CTIME</code>, <code>GMTIME</code>, and <code>LTIME</code>.
<p>This intrinsic is not fully portable, such as to systems with 32-bit
<code>INTEGER</code> 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.
<p>See <a href="TIME8.html#TIME8">TIME8</a>, for information on a similar intrinsic that might be
portable to more GNU Fortran implementations, though to fewer Fortran
compilers.
<br><dt><em>Standard</em>:<dd>GNU extension
<br><dt><em>Class</em>:<dd>Function
<br><dt><em>Syntax</em>:<dd><code>RESULT = TIME()</code>
<br><dt><em>Return value</em>:<dd>The return value is a scalar of type <code>INTEGER(4)</code>.
<br><dt><em>See also</em>:<dd><a href="CTIME.html#CTIME">CTIME</a>, <a href="GMTIME.html#GMTIME">GMTIME</a>, <a href="LTIME.html#LTIME">LTIME</a>, <a href="MCLOCK.html#MCLOCK">MCLOCK</a>, <a href="TIME8.html#TIME8">TIME8</a>
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