# setInterval question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval-question/157408>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 1, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval-question/157408 "2005-08-01T19:38:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigxb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@craigxb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/craigxb)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval-question/157408/1 "2005-08-01T19:38:42Z")

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set Interval… lets say you make a movie clip and in that movie  
clip was a setInterval with a certain name. If you had multiple  
instances of that movie clip each using that same setInterval name  
would there be problems, or is the set interval sort of functioning  
like a local variable?