LiveCycle Form Timer Example Needed

Does anyone have a LiveCycle form count up timer example they can share? The timer needs to have a start and stop buton and a reset/clear button.
I have seen an example in an Acrobat form but do not know how to create one in LiveCycle.
Thank you

I'm not sure why that happens in the preview. Does it stop completely? I've had experience where the preview doesn't work and the stand alone app does and in most cases I'm just happy it works in the standalone and leave it at that.
For the time format put the following code in the calculate event (or whatever event you want) of the TextField you want to see it formatted, where TextField1 is the field showing the total amount of seconds:
var
a = TextField1.rawValue;
seconds = a % 60;a /= 60;
minutes = Math.floor(a % 60);
a /= 60;
hours = Math.floor(a % 24);
this.rawValue=hours+":"+(String(minutes).length==1 ? "0":"")+minutes+":"+(String(seconds).length==1 ? "0":"")+seconds;
I'm sure there's probably a FormCalc trick or display pattern out there that mitigates the need for all that code but this works too.
Kyle

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