Starting an animation on a certain frame

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Hello,
I’ve spent many hours reading the Animation manual and browsing Unity answers and I think I have taken the wrong approach for my implementation. Could you please orientate somebody new in Mecanim? Thanks in advance.

I have a Clock clip, running from 12am to 12pm. I want to be able to initialize the animation so it starts at the time of the day I want. For this purpose, I have implemented a ClockRunningBehaviour class and I want to change the time OnStateEnter().

I have found a function, AnimationState.time, which should provide the functionality I need. However, I don’t know how to get my AnimationState object OnStateEnter():

override public void OnStateEnter(Animator animator, AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo, int layerIndex)
    {
        Animation animation = animator.GetComponent<Animation>();
        foreach (AnimationState state in animation)
        {
            // This is never hit, there are not AnimationStates!
            //state.time = desiredTime;
        }
    }

Is my approach correct? How would you implement a Clock (provided the animation clip)? Thanks!

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Making it easier for future users:

Animator.Play("animationName", layer, time);

// to play from frame x without having to worry about layers 
Animator.Play("name", 0, x);
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