How to store time shown by cftimer in a variable?

cfml, coldfusion, coldfusion-10, coldfusion-9

Solution

Use

<cfset var startTicks = GetTickCount() />
<!--- code to benchmark --->
<cfset var ticksTaken = GetTickCount() - startTicks />

for better control. Note that ticks are ms, and irrelevant unless diffing (the absolute value has no meaning).

Problem

I want to store the time taken by a code to execute in a coldfusion variable. There is a tag called cftimer that displays the time taken by a code to execute. Is there a way to store the time displayed by cftimer tag in a variable?

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