multi-part time lapse display device comprising a housing casing with a base section, a setting section and a display section in the course of the time lapse display device in the direction of the longitudinal axis, wherein the display section is designed to be sufficiently transparent so that light in the visible spectral range is emitted from the display section, wherein the multi-part time lapse display device and in particular the display section is designed as a hollow cylinder or hollow truncated cone, wherein the multi-part time lapse display device comprising electronics which has at least one real-time clock, a microprocessor, a memory and a switch, and the electronics is operatively connected to illuminants arranged inside the display section in such a way that the time lapse display device, as a software-controlled device, enables a light emission varying in brightness and/or light wavelength (lambda) over time by means of software controlled by the microcontroller outwards from the display section of the multi-part time lapse display device radially away from the longitudinal axis, wherein a light animation process up to a target event with emitted light of ascending wavelength, coupled to the remaining time until the target result and a visual and acoustic information of the user upon reaching the target event is programmed and runs under microcontroller control characterised in that, the setting section is detachably connected to the display section, the electronics are arranged in the setting section, positioned opposite the foot section, the switch is designed as a rotary switch and is connected to the electronics, the rotary switch forming the setting section or a part thereof, so that the electronics of the time lapse display device can be set or programmed by means of the rotary switch by means of rotational movements about the longitudinal axis of the setting section. comprising electronics which has at least one real-time clock, a microprocessor, a memory and a switch, and the electronics is operatively connected to illuminants arranged inside the display section in such a way that the time lapse display device, as a software-controlled device, enables a light emission varying in brightness and/or light wavelength (lambda) over time by means of software controlled by the microcontroller outwards from the display section of the multi-part time lapse display device radially away from the longitudinal axis, wherein a light animation process up to a target event with emitted light of ascending wavelength, coupled to the remaining time until the target result and a visual and acoustic information of the user upon reaching the target event is programmed and runs under microcontroller control characterised in that, the setting section is detachably connected to the display section, the electronics are arranged in the setting section, positioned opposite the foot section, the switch is designed as a rotary switch and is connected to the electronics, the rotary switch forming the setting section or a part thereof, so that the electronics of the time lapse display device can be set or programmed by means of the rotary switch by means of rotational movements about the longitudinal axis of the setting section.