[#absl-GetCurrentTimeNanos]
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Returns the current time, expressed as a count of nanoseconds since the Unix Epoch (https&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Unix&lowbar;time)&period; Prefer `absl&colon;&colon;Now()` instead for all but the most performance&hyphen;sensitive cases (i&period;e&period; when you are calling this function hundreds of thousands of times per second)&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;absl&sol;time&sol;clock&period;h&gt;`

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int64&lowbar;t
GetCurrentTimeNanos();
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== Return Value

The current time as nanoseconds since the Unix Epoch&period;


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