Creating a Count Up timer to Break in java

Question

I\'m trying to implement a timer based scoring system for a puzzle application i am writing.

Can someone provide me with an example case of creating a JLabel or Pane

Answer 1

Thats a bit over-complicated. Instead of using seconds, minutes, hours, you could just use java.util.Date, and java.text.SimpleDateFormat for displaying the time passed.

start = new Date(); // time right now
sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");

Then later to show what time has passed:

Date now = new Date();
sdf.format(new Date(now.getTime() - start.getTime()); //create a date based on time passed

This will have the same effect and be much clearer and more consise.