UKismetSystemLibrary::GetPlatformTime_Seconds

function Engine Blueprint Since unknown

#include "Kismet/KismetSystemLibrary.h"

Access: public Specifiers: staticUFUNCTIONBlueprintCallable

Description

Returns the current platform time in seconds, independent of gameplay time, pausing, or slomo. Intended for timing execution or timestamping data, such as measuring how long a Blueprint operation takes.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Only compiled in WITH_EDITOR builds — this node does not exist in packaged/shipping builds, so it cannot be used for runtime profiling in a shipped game.
• Deliberately marked BlueprintCallable rather than BlueprintPure, since implicit (pure) evaluation of a raw platform timestamp is easy to misread when the node fires more than once expected.
• The value has no meaningful absolute reference point; only use it to measure elapsed time between two calls.

Signature

static double GetPlatformTime_Seconds()

Return Type

double

Example

Measure elapsed editor-time execution C++

double Start = UKismetSystemLibrary::GetPlatformTime_Seconds();
DoExpensiveEditorOperation();
double Elapsed = UKismetSystemLibrary::GetPlatformTime_Seconds() - Start;
UE_LOG(LogTemp, Log, TEXT("Took %f seconds"), Elapsed);

Version History

Introduced in: unknown

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

Feedback

Was this helpful?