title: Get a timers elapsed time
body: <p>I wonder if you can get the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since an actionscript timer has started.</p>
  
  <p>I want to set a simple label in flex that has the value of how long it wil take before the timer fires (again).</p>
  
  <p>this is the code, at 'GET ELAPSED TIME', I need the time that the timer has been running (since it last fired the function):</p>
  
  <pre><code>var timer = new Timer (10000);
  timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, foo);
  timer.start();
  
  var numberOfSeconds = timer.delay-timer.'GET ELAPSED TIME';
  
  resetLabel.text = "only "+numberOfSeconds+" until foo fires";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does this function to get the timers time exist and how is it called (google failed to answer me)?</p>