I know this isn't exactly what you asked, but the Date: header is
essentially a timestamp of the request time.

/D

yfinkelstein writes:

> Hi,
> I want to insert a custom HTTP header with the value set to the current timestamp in msec. Is it possible to accomplish this without using perl module? Is there a bult-in variable $current_time or something like this?
>
> Thanks,
> Yuri
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,2788,2788#msg-2788
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