# time

`import { time } from "destack:console";`

Start a named timer.

```ds title="time"
export function time(label?: string | undefined): Result<void, HostError>
```

[language/library/src/console/console.ds:137:139](https://github.com/destack-sh/destack/blob/main/language/library/src/console/console.ds#L137-L139)