Weird with time command verbose option

[Robert Moskowitz]

I use time --verbose in conjunction with rsync a lot, but it has been 
from my Fedora systems.  Just now trying it on Ubuntu.

after a bunch of failures, i figured out path is important...

$ time --verbose /usr/bin/ls
--verbose: command not found

real    0m0.114s
user    0m0.089s
sys    0m0.026s

fails.

$ /usr/bin/time --verbose /usr/bin/ls
public_html  rsync.pswd

real    0m0.002s
user    0m0.002s
sys    0m0.001s

works

Is time a bash internal command as well as the external one?

btw, I have been using time --verbose in crontab jobs where full path is 
needed.  I was testing out something new and was not bothering with the 
full path and throwing that error....