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Time8 Intrinsic
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     Time8()

Time8: `INTEGER(KIND=2)' function.

Intrinsic groups: `unix'.

Description:

   Returns the current time encoded as a long integer (in the manner of
the UNIX function `time(3)').  This value is suitable for passing to
`CTIME', `GMTIME', and `LTIME'.

   *Warning:* this intrinsic does not increase the range of the timing
values over that returned by `time(3)'.  On a system with a 32-bit
`time(3)', `TIME8' will return a 32-bit value, even though converted to
an `INTEGER(KIND=2)' value.  That means overflows of the 32-bit value
can still occur.  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.

   No Fortran implementations other than GNU Fortran are known to
support this intrinsic at the time of this writing.  Note: Time
Intrinsic (UNIX), for information on a similar intrinsic that might
be portable to more Fortran compilers, though to fewer GNU Fortran
implementations.