How to reset millis( )?

Question

I am currently doing a school project. There you have to program a stopwatch with the Arduino. I wrote a program where millis starts. But when I press my start button, millis don‘t start from 0. Has someone an idea? Please let me know.

Ps: I‘m German, so I‘m sorry for my bad English enter image description here

Answer 1

You don't. Instead you just remember what millis() was when you pressed your start button, then subtract that from whatever millis() is showing at any other point in the future.

• Laurentien: I‘ve just added a picture of my program, maybe you‘re able to take a look
• Majenko: @Laurentien Please... don't post photographs of code. Post the actual code.
• DataFiddler: BTW: millis() returns an unsigned long. That will make a difference after 24 days of continuous running. And it will allow running forever, even when that unsigned long will roll over.
• ratchet freak: @DataFiddler but doing stopmillis-startmillis will always return the correct value if the time between start and stop is less than the 24-day rollover.
• CrossRoads: It's a 49+ day rollover. unsigned long lets millis() return from 0 to 4,294,967,295 mS. x 1 second/1000mS, x 1 minute/60 seconds, x 1 hour/60 minutes, x 1 day/24 hours = 49.59 days