# Timing Half-Life demos

**URL:** <https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/timing-half-life-demos/3097>\
**Category:** λ Half-Life\
**Created:** [April 11, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/timing-half-life-demos/3097 "2018-04-11T23:37:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Turmoil](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/turmoil/32/234_2.png) [@Turmoil](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Turmoil)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/timing-half-life-demos/3097/1 "2018-04-11T23:37:07Z")

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How do I properly time HL demos? A timer shows up if I viewdemo instead of play but the timer starts at 1:00 instead of 0 on the first segment.Using Steam HL with BXT and bxt\_autorecord. Do I just remove the first second? Is there a command or something that will tell me the exact length?

Example on c1a0

S1 1:00 - 6:97 = 5.97  
S2 6.97 - 14.12 = 7.15  
Total 13.12

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**Author:** ![YaLTeR](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/yalter/32/553_2.png) [@YaLTeR](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/YaLTeR)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/timing-half-life-demos/3097/2 "2018-04-12T06:47:00Z")

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You don’t time demos. You note the BXT timer time you got while recording.

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**Author:** ![Turmoil](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/turmoil/32/234_2.png) [@Turmoil](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Turmoil)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/timing-half-life-demos/3097/3 "2018-04-12T21:50:56Z")

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Sorry if I was not clear but I am not doing full game runs. Should I add timer\_reset/start to the load bind and timer\_stop to the save bind for segmenting?

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**Author:** ![YaLTeR](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/yalter/32/553_2.png) [@YaLTeR](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/YaLTeR)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/timing-half-life-demos/3097/4 "2018-04-13T04:07:40Z")

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Yeah, that’s how people usually do it.