It's often useful to know how long program takes to install. The timer that I have is accurate to one second and this is generally more than adequate for my needs. I realized how ridiculous is to have a multi-megabuck computer sitting here and needing a separate timer to perform certain tests. Therefore I decided for this month C Users Group meeting, that I would create a software timer that has the same functionality. There is a large display for numbers over an inch high.
Several buttons provide start and stop functions.
Extra features of this timer include the ability to start the timer from the command line such as in the middle of a batch program and to an identify the timer so that more than one event can be timed. Just for fun, I wrote a simple batch program that starts 50 timers at once. See you there. Look for the current month.