How can I get the current UNIX timestamp?

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The question is pretty simple. How can I get the current UNIX timestamp in seconds in GDScript?

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It's as simple as OS.get_unix_time(). It will return an int being the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970, AKA the UNIX epoch.

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why are you asking and answering your own questions? :)

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It's an usual thing on stackoverflow, and as I saw that some people were doing it here, too, I jumped onto the bandwagon :)

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oh, ok haha :D

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@Howl ~ Just make sure not to overuse this ;) better to answer questions on-demand than have many useless questions (I'm NOT implying that this question is useless)

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I found this useful. Thanks!

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When there is no one asking because the question looks very noob, one can ask and answer by himself, which is great

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I found this useful and find the habit of asking and answering your own questions also useful. It's so cheap to post something on a forum and so costly to wait for hours or days for someone to answer that posting in advance is a smart way to document our knowledge.

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just what I was looking for, thank you.

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