Talk:Timer

"Timer" instead of "A timer"
why does the page start with "Timer" instead of "A timer"? Is there a reason for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hero of Milk (talk • contribs) 16:34, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

A typical mechanical timer (76 years)
what on earth does (76 years) mean on the caption of this picture? I mean, is the timer 76 years old? could someone who understands what the caption means fix it or something? jussaying — Preceding unsigned comment added by TSBoncompte (talk • contribs) 20:42, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Opening heading
software timers ? imagine some application scheduler (high priority thread) which keeps list of running (started) timers and calls hooks supplied by the application when timer expires see also http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/larytet/emLIB/AOS/aosTimer.h?rev=1.1&view=markup

Electronic timer
Why aren't analogue electronic timers included in the article? Although not accurate a simple RC ckt along with a BJT can act as a timer... Rohitbd 14:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You mean quartz analog timers like ? I might as well go ahead and fix it. [ |Retro00064 | (talk/contribs) | ] 05:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Egg timer should be merged into this article

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

No consensus to merge. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:17, 6 June 2010 (UTC) I have noticed that there are two Wikipedia articles on timers: Timer, this article, and Egg timer, the article that needs to be merged into this one. The articles seem to have a bit of overlap. This article could easily have a section entitled "Egg timers" that gives detailes about true "egg timers" (timers that have a maximum setting of 3 minutes) and the fact that people often incorrectly call regular kitchen timers (timers that have a maximum setting of more than 3 minutes) "egg timers". The 2 articles don't even link to each other. To create some consistency, the aticles should be merged. I can already imagine what the merged article would look like. [ |Retro00064 | (talk/contribs) | ] 04:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


 * bad idea--76.116.105.50 (talk) 02:38, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that is a good idea. The Egg timer article isn't very big, and has some bad pictures now. I am adding some pictures to the timer article, and agree with your idea of merging Hustvedt (talk) 00:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It's about time I got around to this! I'm going to try to merge the articles soon, and then I will try to get the article listed at WikiProject Time. [ |Retro00064 | (talk/contribs) | ] 05:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes. Merge. I was looking for basic timers and entered 'timers' in Google. It gave me the Wiki site, where I expected to see candle-timers, water-timers, sand-timers and egg-timers etc. as well as more modern timers. But all of these were missing! Please merge! Or, if the egg-timer article is huge, at least put a brief mention of them on the 'timer' page, and then put a link to the full article. --Observer29 (talk) 16:43, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

i dont think egg timers should put in cos they are the same as a mechanical timer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.60.223.194 (talk) 09:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't Egg timer be merged into Hourglass instead? Alksentrs (talk) 11:51, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Excellent idea. True 'egg timers' are actually just a type of hourglass. [ |Retro00064|&#9742;talk|&#x270D;contribs| ] 23:38, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I disagree with the merge notion. Not all 3-minute egg-timers are types of hourglasses.  Few hourglasses are egg-timers set to exactly 3 minutes.  The size is obviously radically different, but more importantly, the environment (setting) is completely different.  --Connel MacKenzie -  wikt 23:08, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Interval timer project work
Explain 102.89.45.75 (talk) 17:58, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Motivation is the key
You lose You win 49.206.52.199 (talk) 14:57, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

clock
genrations of clock 112.196.145.173 (talk) 12:21, 9 October 2023 (UTC)