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How to use a trigger in combination with time?

I want a GameObject to be destroyed 2 seconds after being in interaction with the trigger, and I thought something like this should work:

function OnTriggerEnter(other : Collider)
  {
    if(other.gameObject.Tag == "Player && Time.deltaTime > 2)
      {
	   Destroy(gameObject);
	   Debug.Log(Destroyed after 2 Seconds of interaction");
      }
  }

But it is not working correctly, only if I set the time variable really low. <— This is solved due to the fact that I forgot about the CoRoutines, Thanks dannyskim

Edit

The answer from dannyskim was the one that solved my problem, creating a Timer, and using OnTriggerStay instead of OnTriggerEnter…

This is my result:

//
private var startTime;
//
function OnTriggerStay(other : collider)
{
  if(other.gameObject.Tag == "Player")
      {
        Debug.Log("Player OnTriggerStay");
        startTime = Time.time;
        //
       if(startTime >= 4.0)
         {
           Debug.Log("Player destroyed GO");
           ResetTimer();
           Destroy(gameObject);
         }
      }
}
//
function OnTriggerExit(other : Collider)
{
  if(other.gameObject.Tag == "Player") 
    { 
     Debug.Log("Player OnTriggerExit"); 
     ResetTimer();
    }
}
//
function ResetTimer()
{
  startTimer= 0.0;
}
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Best to probably just stick your Destory() inside of a CoRoutine, you can’t just halt execution of OnTrigger as it behaves like any other runtime method .

StartCoroutine( destroyGO(2, gameObject) );

function destroyGO( wait : float, go : GameObject  )
{
    yield WaitForSeconds(wait);
    Destroy(go);
}