---
title: now.sec
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/variables/date-and-time/now-sec
---

**Type:** STRING  
**Access:** read-only

**Available in:** 

Like the `now` variable, but in seconds since the
[Unix Epoch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time).