GetTickCount

getTickCount

Returns the number of monotonic milliseconds elapsed in the current runtime.

Syntax

int getTickCount()

Parameters

This function does not accept parameters.

Returns

Returns a monotonic timestamp in milliseconds as an integer.

Examples

Measure how long an operation takes:

local startedAt = getTickCount()
-- Do some work here.
outputDebugString("Elapsed: " .. (getTickCount() - startedAt) .. " ms")

Notes

• Available in both client-side and server-side resource scripts.
• Use this value for elapsed-time calculations, not as a wall-clock date or time.