# Basic timer question

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/basic-timer-question/1300622
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** timer
**Created:** [May 22, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/basic-timer-question/1300622 "2021-05-22T17:01:52Z")
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#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/basic-timer-question/1300622/15 "2021-05-26T07:07:20Z")

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The `Time in [seconds|milliseconds]` blocks don’t work exactly the way you have programmed them here.

This block will return the remaining time on your Timer’s interval.

So if your Timer’s interval is 5 seconds, this block will count down 4, 3, 2 1, 0.

If your timer’s interval is 1s, and you show this value when the timer fires, it will always show 0, as there are 0 seconds remaining on the Timer.

Here is an example of how your Timer could be set up, and how you would work with it in the blocks:

 ![Screen Shot 2021-05-26 at 8.07.00 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/0/a05d4e93a38c0150e7218bddb9cc03b73bad75a8.png)

 ![Screen Shot 2021-05-26 at 8.06.13 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/3/238491c5f589d1e54de9cff7e1b2932c60e38475.png)

You can see a project that demonstrates how to use these blocks [here](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/60adf15cf59875001247e31a/)

This is now explained in the [Timer docs](https://docs.thunkable.com/timer#get-time). Thanks for asking about it!

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