Time delay on Movieclip?

[breaths2]

For Flash MX.
How do I go about setting time delays on Movieclips using actionscript? Could somebody point me in the right direction as to what terms to look for or a sample piece of code to look at?
Thanks.

[grvdgr]

Hello,

Stop movie for number of seconds

Frame 1: 
mydate = new Date(); 
startSec = mydate.getSeconds(); 
Frame 2: 
waited = startSec - nowSec; 
Frame 3: 
mydate2 = new Date(); 
nowSec = mydate2.getSeconds(); 
if (nowSec == startSec + 10 || nowSec == (60 - startSec)) { 
trace ("10 seconds up"); 
stop (); 
} else { 
gotoAndPlay (2); 
}

Note that frame 2 was just for debugging but you can't go back to frame 1 at any stage because it will reset the start time and your timer will never run down....

Or

Drop the following code into the frame you want to pause:

start = getTimer(); 
while (start+3000>now) { 
now = getTimer(); 
}

This will pause the movie for 3 seconds.

Hope it helps
Regards
~GD~

[breaths2]

I'll have a snoop at this and give it a try. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

[breaths2]

Hello,
I used the bottom script you sent but it only plays the time delay on one movie clip. I have a time delay on three seperate clips in the same movie all with different times set. Any ideas how to get around this?
Thanks