Elapsed Timer in secs

[dacad]

You also want to change the display format of your indicators to time, either relative or absolute depending on what you are trying to accomplish. I used relative  The original loop will then run and update in seconds as you are looking for.  You can customize the format to see just the reolution you want such as just seconds or minutes and seconds, etc.

Not the best way to do it but it will work.

[RTSLVU]

This still seems simpler to me as there is no sense reinventing the wheel

[BoKnows]

Naicha,

You might be interested in these links:

http://labviewwiki.org/Functional_global_variable

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-2143

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-21226

One of our common programming practices is to use Functional Global Variables.  These only work beacuse the shift register DOES necessarily hold the last value as long as LabVIEW remains open.

FGVs are very commonly used with timing because they remove excess code from "main" and allow you to work with cleaner code.