uptime prints the current time, the length of time the system has been up, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It is, essentially, the first line of a w.1 command.
example% uptime 6:47am up 6 days, 16:38, 1 users, load average: 0.69, 0.28, 0.17 example%
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