Delay in actionscript

is there a command in actionscript to create a delay such as:
delay(integer);
and if so what is it?
if there isn't then could someone suggest an alternative that doesn't involve using more then one frame?

pauseDuration = 2*1000;
framesInLoop = 1;
if (startTime == null) {
startTime = getTimer();
gotoAndPlay (_currentframe-framesInLoop);
} else {
lapsedTime = getTimer()-startTime;
if (lapsedTime < pauseDuration) {
gotoAndPlay (_currentframe-framesInLoop);
} else {
startTime = null;
}
}

pause duration - set the "2" to how ever long you want (this is in seconds)
frames in loop - how many frames u want the pause to run over. U need atleast 2 frames. One frame with this script..one empty one before it.

well being im not a big programmer i really dont understand that and also like i said i can only use one frame. I thought about it and came up with this:
function timer() {
dateObj = new Date();
_root.entirebar.count = dateObj.getSeconds();
do {
upToCount = dateObj.getSeconds();
} while ((upToCount - count) <= 1);
}
and remember i only need a one second delay in a different loop of mine so i figured if i just made flash execute a loop that does nothing until a second had passed by then it would give me a second delay but for some reason this seems to be a never ending loop can you see why? and it may not be a never ending loop, im not sure, but its one that causes the program to not execute because its going through that loop....any help will be appreciated.