# Current time of Timer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/current-time-of-timer/280756>\
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**Created:** [January 31, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/current-time-of-timer/280756 "2009-01-31T12:11:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![substance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@substance](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/substance)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/current-time-of-timer/280756/1 "2009-01-31T12:11:23Z")

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Maybe I’m blind (or just dumb) but I’ve been searching through the API trying to find out how to get the time elapsed for a Timer object.

I want to, at any given time, find out EXACTLY how much time(in milliseconds) has passed since a Timer Object has been started.

Is this possible?