display TIME - help

i an trying to display current time in the expect script. it works fine in normal shell script but does not in expect. can anybody help me with the synatx to display it.

Can you explain, or better still -- provide sample code and error?

you call the expect.exp script within your main shell script. this expect script conists a set of commands that need to be performed like -
spawn a shell
login to FTP
put the file
logout

...
i wanted to display time to check how much time does a process take.