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

== Synopsis

Declared in `<absl/time/clock.h>`

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int64_t
GetCurrentTimeNanos();
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== Return Value

The current time as nanoseconds since the Unix Epoch.


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