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Return a reference providing non‐modifiable access to the epoch time: midnight on January 1, 1970. Note that this value exists before any code is executed and will continue to exist, unchanged, until the program exits.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlt_epochutil.h>`

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static
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epoch();
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