MacBook Pro Working Hours

Hi all
I would like to know whether there is a way to know for how many hours that my macbook was running on ?
I heard that there is one using Terminal command, isn't it ?
Thanks all

If you just want to see how long it's been running since the last restart, the Terminal command is:
uptime

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