Determines the number of milliseconds (thousandths of a second) since the computer was started.

clock.milliseconds()

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A number indicating how many milliseconds have passed since the computer was started.

clock.milliseconds()

9140884

clock.milliseconds() / 1000  // for seconds

9167

This verb is useful in performance benchmarking tests and for generating random numbers.

Modern processors are much too fast for “clock.ticks” to be as useful as it once was: too many operations (or entire scripts) can be executed in less than one tick.

Script profiling results are reported in milliseconds (used to be ticks).

Reference

clock.ticks()