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Re: Finding the Elapsed Time in a Match

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Originally Posted by davidalln View Post
Is there an easy way of getting the amount of time elapsed in a match? I searched extensively through Chief Delphi and the Dashboard/DriverStation classes on FirstForge with no luck in finding anything useful. Would it be better to keep track of the time myself? How would I best go about this?
AFAIK, there isn't anything that tracks that automatically for you. Use the Timer class provided in WPILib and just start it at the beginning of operator control.

Timer class docs: http://www.virtualroadside.com/WPILib/class_timer.html
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