"time", but for layouts?

Is there something like "time", but in layout context? The regular "time" is the time in seconds since the global game start, but I need to measure the time since the last (re)start of the current layout.

My workaround right now is to increase a variable every second.

1. When a layout restarts, set a variable "layoutTime" equal to the time

2. If you wanna know how long since the layout restarted, take the time - layoutTime

An increasing variable is the best way to do it.

Make a Global Variable LayoutTime

On start of layout:

Set LayoutTime to 0

Every Tick

Add 1*dt to LayoutTime (It will tick up at a rate of 1 per second)

dd 1*dt to LayoutTime (It will tick up at a rate of 1 per second)

That's what I'm doing right now.. ah well. I was hoping to have missed a system variable to poll <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle" />