# Resuming the Timer

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resuming-the-timer/323590
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 8, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resuming-the-timer/323590 "2011-07-08T07:49:19Z")
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### Author: ![Nuwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Nuwa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nuwa)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resuming-the-timer/323590/1 "2011-07-08T07:49:19Z")

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I know how to stop and start a timer, but how can you capture the timer value to a variable and resume it from there at a later time?  
I tried capturing the currentCount of the timer to an integer variable, but i cant modify it…it says its read only.  
Does anyone know how to do this??