Timer fixture is intended to be used as library[?].

All times reported are in milliseconds, resume can only be done after pause. After stopping a timer it is no longer available.

We can start and use a timer without a name.

script	timer fixture
start timer
wait	5	milliseconds
check	time on timer	5>= 5
$elapsed<-[5]	time on timer
wait	1	milliseconds
check	stop timer	6>$elapsed->[5]

We can start and use a timer with a name.

script	timer fixture
start timer	test
wait	1	seconds
check	time on timer	test	1000>= 1000
$elapsed<-[1000]	time on timer	test
check	stop timer	test	1000>=$elapsed->[1000]
start timer	test2

We can use a timer with a name started in another script table.

script	timer fixture
wait	1	milliseconds
check	time on timer	test2	2> 0
$elapsed<-[2]	time on timer	test2
check	stop timer	test2	2>=$elapsed->[2]

We pause and resume timers

script	timer fixture
start timer	to Pause
wait	1	milliseconds
check	pause timer	to Pause	1>=1
$paused<-[1]	time on timer	to Pause
wait	1	milliseconds
check	time on timer	to Pause	$paused->[1]
resume timer	to Pause
wait	1	milliseconds
check	time on timer	to Pause	2>$paused->[1]

We can get information on all timers.

script	timer fixture
start timer
start timer	test 8
start timer	test 9
show	all timer times	to Pause 3 default 0 test 8 0 test 9 0
show	stop all timers	to Pause 3 default 0 test 8 0 test 9 0

We can get the current system time, possibly specifying a format (the format is the format string used by Java's SimpleDateFormat, also used by '!today') to use.
The difference between these methods and !today is that the latter is evaluated when the test is started, these methods return the time at the moment the test executes them.

script	timer fixture
show	current system time				07:47:33.578
show	current system time as	HH:MM:ss.SSS			07:03:33.578
show	current system time as	E dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss.SSS			Mon 16-Mar-20 07:47:33.578
show	current system time as	E dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss.SSS	in	ja-JP-x-lvariant-JP	月 16-3-02 07:47:33.580