# Time limit
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-limit/5719
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 20, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-limit/5719 "2002-09-20T04:33:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@the\_kza](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/the_kza)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-limit/5719/1 "2002-09-20T04:33:41Z")
I’m trying to make a game with a time limit of around 60 seconds and have tried of couple ideas but have been unsuccessful in getting anything to work. What I tried was putting this code on a button:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay (2);
\_root.time1.getTime();
}
Then, on the next frame:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
\_root.time2.getTime();
\_root.time3 = \_root.time2 - \_root.time1;
if (\_root.time3 \> 6000) {
gotoAndStop(3);
}}
I’m sure that this is just absolutely wrong because I checked what the variables return and that’s absolutely nothing…Can anyone give me any suggestions? Thanks for any help
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-limit/5719/2 "2002-09-20T07:28:00Z")
1. not getTime(), but getTimeR(); !!
2. no path to be used with it, it’s a general property of the movie, all you need is variable=getTimer();
3. the exact code you want is on p.466 of the Moock book; as in every other post, isay: Folks, go get that book!!
(want me to post the code?)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-limit/5719/3 "2002-09-20T21:22:25Z")
Thanks for telling me about that function! Once I had that, I got it up and running in a couple minutes, so you don’t have to post the code. I’m also probably going to get that book. After you mentioned it, I looked it up on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) and everyone who got it likes it…so I figured, why not?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-limit/5719/4 "2003-12-23T16:25:40Z")
Hi Eyezberg,
hope u still reading this. can u post the code to set the time limit?