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Return the instantaneous value of a platform‐dependent system timer in absolute nanoseconds referenced to an arbitrary but fixed origin. Note that this method is thread‐safe only if `initialize` has been called before.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_timeutil.h>`

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