# Timer: Enable (True/false) vs start/stop
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/timer-enable-true-false-vs-start-stop/1001239
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** timer
**Created:** [November 26, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/timer-enable-true-false-vs-start-stop/1001239 "2020-11-26T16:50:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@allthingsyantho](https://community.thunkable.com/u/allthingsyantho)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/timer-enable-true-false-vs-start-stop/1001239/1 "2020-11-26T16:50:20Z")
Timers have an “enabled” property that can be set to **true** and **false**.
Timers can also be told to **start** and **stop**.
How are these different? It seems in both cases that the timer is essentially disabled, such that re-enabling it resets its time in relation to its interval. So if a timer with an interval of 1000ms is stopped with 200ms before it fires, telling it to start will reset it so it is counting down from 1000 not from 200.
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### Author:  [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/timer-enable-true-false-vs-start-stop/1001239/2 "2020-11-27T07:54:52Z")
welcome to our community @allthingsyantho!!! 😄
please wait someone will come to solve your doubt
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### Author:  [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/timer-enable-true-false-vs-start-stop/1001239/3 "2020-12-28T10:26:10Z")
well i am replying here again because its been a while since nobody has replied here
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/timer-enable-true-false-vs-start-stop/1001239/4 "2024-11-08T12:19:22Z")