# Glfw library doesn't include timer related methods?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glfw-library-doesnt-include-timer-related-methods/13858>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glfw-library-doesnt-include-timer-related-methods/13858 "2018-08-21T23:29:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![purplishrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/purplishrock/32/13451_2.png) [@purplishrock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/purplishrock)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glfw-library-doesnt-include-timer-related-methods/13858/1 "2018-08-21T23:29:02Z")

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glfwGetTime, glfwSetTime, glfwGetTimerValue, glfwGetTimerFrequency, at the least, there might be others.

when looking through the code the only thing i found related to timers was the event loop timeout.

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**Author:** ![purplishrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/purplishrock/32/13451_2.png) [@purplishrock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/purplishrock)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glfw-library-doesnt-include-timer-related-methods/13858/2 "2018-08-22T21:55:12Z")

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just use time() instead.