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Is it possible to get a flows start time during runtime?

Hey Matthew! IIRC, you should be able to get this from the <https://docs.prefect.io/latest/guides/runtime-context/?h=context|Runtime Context>.

The `start_time` is <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-access-prefect-context-values/62|one of those values>

Hey Bianca,

I've been looking at that. It works as expected if `get_run_context` context returns the `FlowRunContext` but if it returns the `TaskRunContext` then `start_time` refers to the start time of the task rather than the flow.

The problem is I can't seem to find a way to access `FlowRunContext` inside of a task

Instantiating it myself gives a bunch of pydantic errors

Nevermind actually, must have had a typo or something, I can instantiate `FlowRunContext` myself