If i'm using the ps4 broadcast feature, can i use the elapsed time clock at the top of the screen as a timer?

You can, but your run will most likely be retimed regardless.

Yeah, timing isn't needed for Bedrock as it's extremely hard to time correctly so it's always retimed - even on PC

You can use it, but it doesn’t really matter.

Ok, thank you all

Also no one is wondering, but it's close to impossible to make an auto splitter for bedrock since it's cross platform and we can't run a timer on consoles and mobile. (and we can't run timers on consoles because it's dangerous, same for mobile to read data from another process)