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TIME

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Group
Server
Complexity
O(1)
Arity
1 (exactly, counting the command name)
Flags
read-only, fast, loading, stale
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TIME returns the server’s wall-clock time. Use it when several clients need one clock to agree on, for example to timestamp events or check clock drift between application hosts.

Return value

Section titled “Return value”

An array of two bulk strings, in RESP2 and RESP3:

  1. The Unix time in seconds.
  2. The microseconds elapsed in the current second.

Examples

Section titled “Examples”
127.0.0.1:6379> TIME
1) "1790000000"
2) "482113"

Compatibility

Section titled “Compatibility”

Same as Redis 7 and Valkey 8.

See also

Section titled “See also”

LASTSAVE, INFO (server_time_usec)