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Tracking time of an API call

I'd like to track the execution time of an API call made in an action, and save the duration into a field. This call could take anywhere from a couple seconds to well over a minute. I'm already creating a record at the start of the action right before calling the API, so my first thought was to just get a new
Date
Date
instance (or using
Date.now()
Date.now()
), and then compare the value against the record's creation time. However, then I read this about dates in Convex functions:

https://docs.convex.dev/functions/runtimes#using-randomness-and-time-in-queries-and-mutations

Is there another way to pull this off and accurately track when I receive the response from the API call?
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Convex functions can run in two runtimes:
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