---
title: CGEventTimestamp
framework: coregraphics
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Alias
path: coregraphics/cgeventtimestamp
---

# CGEventTimestamp

Defines the elapsed time in nanoseconds since startup that a Quartz event occurred.

## Declaration

```swift
typealias CGEventTimestamp = UInt64
```

## Discussion

Discussion You set an event’s timestamp with CGEventSetTimestamp, and access it later with CGEvent’s timestamp property.

## See Also

### Data Types

- [CGButtonCount](coregraphics/cgbuttoncount.md)
- [CGCharCode](coregraphics/cgcharcode.md)
- [CGDirectDisplayID](coregraphics/cgdirectdisplayid.md)
- [CGDisplayBlendFraction](coregraphics/cgdisplayblendfraction.md)
- [CGDisplayConfigRef](coregraphics/cgdisplayconfigref.md)
- [CGDisplayCount](coregraphics/cgdisplaycount.md)
- [CGDisplayErr](coregraphics/cgdisplayerr.md)
- [CGDisplayFadeInterval](coregraphics/cgdisplayfadeinterval.md)
- [CGDisplayFadeReservationToken](coregraphics/cgdisplayfadereservationtoken.md)
- [CGDisplayMode](coregraphics/cgdisplaymode.md)
- [CGDisplayReconfigurationCallBack](coregraphics/cgdisplayreconfigurationcallback.md)
- [CGDisplayReservationInterval](coregraphics/cgdisplayreservationinterval.md)
- [CGDisplayStream](coregraphics/cgdisplaystream.md)
- [CGDisplayStreamFrameAvailableHandler](coregraphics/cgdisplaystreamframeavailablehandler.md)
- [CGDisplayStreamUpdate](coregraphics/cgdisplaystreamupdate.md)