TRIGGERTIME returning 0

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Hi there– Stumped as I occasionally find myself :slight_smile:

I'm trying to use TRIGGERTIME to stop a While loop, in the form of the calculation While NOW-TRIGGERTIME < timeLimit (a variable holding a number of seconds.) While trying to debug this, I have found in Variable Inspector that TRIGGERTIME is returning 0, even while watching it during the macro.

To check for user error I found that both NOW and TIME returned their expected values.

If anyone can point me in a direction as to why this might be, please let me know!
Thank you.

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I'm fairly sure TRIGGERTIME() is unique to each macro instance, which would explain why it shows up as 0 in the inspector. You could always set it to a global variable if you want to double check its value. In the meantime, that calculation of NOW() - TRIGGERTIME() < Variable seems to work fine for me regardless of what the inspector shows, so I can't say what could be going wrong in your macro without seeing the macro itself.

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