How to get the time from the beginning of a layer

I am using expression in AfterEffects.
I was using the time attribute, but the value changed when I precomposed it,

let t = time - inPoint;

to replace the time attribute.
Is there any way to more easily get the time from the start of the layer?

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Are you talking about getting the in point of a layer inside a precomp? I think it would be something like this:

t = time - comp(name).layer(1).inPoint;

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