Is timer:pause() broken, or am I just not using it correctly?

[RDK (Rebecca König)]

This is indeed a bug. Here’s a thread about it with a potential workaround.

Playdate.timer value increases between calling :pause() and :start()

It looks like a timer's value keeps updating even after it's been paused? I expected it to not change after :pause() was called, and to only begin incrementing again after calling :start() I put together a minimal repro - if you press A and check the console output you will see the value incrementing normally, but if you press A again, wait for a couple of seconds, and press A once more, you will notice the value has jumped as though the timer was never paused. import 'CoreLibs/timer' local t…

I’ll lock this thread to keep the discussion in one place.