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11/3/71SYS_TIME (II)

NAME time -- get time of year
SYNOPSIS sys time / time = 13.


(time AC--MQ)
DESCRIPTION time returns the time since 00:00:00, Jan. 1, 1971, measured insixtieths of a second. The high order word is in the AC register and


the low order is in the MQ.
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DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS The chronological--minded user will note that 2**32 sixtieths of asecond is only about 2.5 years.


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