How can I redirect the output of the “time” command?

Question

I tried to redirect the output of the time command, but I couldn\'t:

$time ls > filename
real    0m0.000s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

Answer 1

I use the redirection of stdout and stderr method with braces for testing.
The &>>rpt represents this >>rpt 2>&1 but shorter.
The braces will execute a command(s) in the current shell.   See: man bash

{ time ls a*; } &>>rpt