# Timing

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## [About the Timing category](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/about-the-timing-category/26)

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**Author:** [@cstawarz](https://mworks.discourse.group/u/cstawarz)\
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**Last updated:** [July 18, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/about-the-timing-category/26 "2022-07-18T15:20:14Z")

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Info about timing in MWorks.

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## [Understanding display update time stamps](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/understanding-display-update-time-stamps/42)

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**Author:** [@cstawarz](https://mworks.discourse.group/u/cstawarz)\
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**Last updated:** [April 30, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/understanding-display-update-time-stamps/42 "2018-04-30T15:16:16Z")

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Whenever the stimulus displayed is updated, MWorks generates a #stimDisplayUpdate event. Like all MWorks events, display update announcements include an event time (indicating microseconds elapsed since the server start…

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## [Time stamping](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/time-stamping/31)

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**Author:** [@cstawarz](https://mworks.discourse.group/u/cstawarz)\
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**Last updated:** [January 11, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://mworks.discourse.group/t/time-stamping/31 "2011-01-11T22:08:20Z")

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Users must be familiar with how the time stamp associated with each event in a data file is determined. In this regard, MWorks has been designed with two overall goals: Make all time stamps relative to the same clock…