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Is there a way to access a flow’s start time (or any other distinct-per-flow timestamp) from within a flow?

<@UTHEQ4F9R> I think I answered my own question : `prefect.context.scheduled_start_time`?

Hi! One option at the flow run level is `scheduled_start_time` which is in context. Docs are at <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/utilities/context.html#context> but tl;dr it should be the scheduled start time for the flow run if it was scheduled (which maybe isn’t as unique as you want), but if it WASN’T scheduled it is the time it was created. (code ref from when we set it <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/master/server/src/prefect_server/api/runs.py#L50>)

I’m assuming that won’t change while retrying the flow i.e. it will always be the time the flow was first submitted for execution?