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<h1 class="refname">Ev::now</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL ev >= 0.2.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">Ev::now</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the time when the last iteration of the default event
loop has started.</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">final</span>
<span class="modifier">public</span>
<span class="modifier">static</span>
<span class="type">double</span>
<span class="methodname"><strong>Ev::now</strong></span>
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Returns the time when the last iteration of the default event loop has
started. This is the time that timers(
<a href="class.evtimer.html" class="classname">EvTimer</a>
and
<a href="class.evperiodic.html" class="classname">EvPeriodic</a>
) are based on, and referring to it is usually faster then calling
<span class="methodname"><a href="ev.time.html" class="methodname">Ev::time()</a></span>
.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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Returns number of seconds(fractional) representing the time when the last
iteration of the default event loop has started.
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<span class="methodname"><a href="ev.nowupdate.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">Ev::nowUpdate()</a> - Establishes the current time by querying the kernel, updating the time
returned by Ev::now in the progress.</span>
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