Chrome Flags Reference

Chrome command line switches and startup flags for automation, headless mode, and debugging.

--time-ticks-at-unix-epoch

What does --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch do?

Accepts a number representing the time-ticks value at the Unix epoch. Since different processes can produce a different value for this due to system clock changes, this allows synchronizing them to a single value.

Usage

CLILaunch Chrome with --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch using CLI

chrome --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch

PuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch using Puppeteer

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  args: ['--time-ticks-at-unix-epoch']
});

PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch using Playwright

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  args: ['--time-ticks-at-unix-epoch']
});

SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch using Selenium

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--time-ticks-at-unix-epoch')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

Build Conditions

LOAD_WEBUI_FROM_DISK