While working on my XNA framework I ran into the annoyance of having to create code simular to the following code over and over again.

    float elapsed = (float)gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds;

This is rather annoying to have to add all over the place, wether it be in an update statement, physics calculations, render code, etc. So I ended up writing a simple component/service that can be added to any object in your game that will keep track of everything the GameTime object does and more.

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