def utcNow( cls ):
    """Return the current UTC time as a FILETIME value.

    Output: An unsigned long integer representing the current time in
            FILETIME format.

    Notes:  Yeah...the few nanoseconds it will take to run this code
            means that by the time the result is actually returned it
            is already a bit stale.
    """
    return( long( round( time(), 7 ) * 10000000 ) + cls._EPOCH_DELTA_SECS )