# Help with stopwatch timer in glide pages **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-stopwatch-timer-in-glide-pages/50673 **Category:** Ask for Help **Created:** [October 2, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-stopwatch-timer-in-glide-pages/50673 "2022-10-02T00:51:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh) #### Post date: [October 2, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-stopwatch-timer-in-glide-pages/50673/2 "2022-10-02T02:35:15Z")
Sadly there’s no stopwatch component in Pages, so the best I think you can do is have a custom form, then have a “start” button and a “stop” button. The start button will set a timestamp to a “start” column, the “stop” button will set a timestamp to a “stop” column. Then have a math column to calculate the difference between those, that will be the duration. > [@How do I create a custom form?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-i-create-a-custom-form/25014): > > I’m just dropping this here so I have something to refer people to when they ask. This is a simple concept app (copyable), that demonstrates the following techniques: Building custom forms for adding and editing list items (as an alternative to the native forms provided by Glide) Preventing duplicate new entries using [User Specific Columns](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/user-specific-columns) and [Relations](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/computed-columns/relation-column) Enforcing mandatory input items The use of visibility conditions and user specific booleans to control user flow There is nothing particula… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-stopwatch-timer-in-glide-pages/50673)._