From the NannyMUD documentation

LAST CHANGE

2000-12-16

FUNCTION

NAME
        time - Give the current time.


SYNTAX
        int time()

DESCRIPTION
        This function returns the number of seconds that has passes
        since the Epoch, which was on January 1, 1970, at 00:00, GMT.
        Since NannyMUD is in the time zone MET, you'll see 01:00 as
        the start of the Epoch here.


SEE ALSO
        ctime in efun/type_related/ctime