Equinox has its own internal timer. This timer is started when Equinox starts and counts continuously in 1/100ths of a second. After about 500 days, the timer's storage area runs out of room and the timer resets. This function returns the timer's current value in 1/100ths of a second.

Note that the value returns an integer and not a time value. You can use this function to time events over a short period of time, such as a few seconds or minutes.

The following example uses the Timer function to time an operation. The result is printed in the Print window.

number StartPoint, StopPoint

StartPoint = Timer

...

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| ike Print "result: ", Timer - StartPoint, the Print
| statement will interfere with the result

StopPoint = Timer
Print "result:", (StopPoint - StartPoint) / 100,"secs"