title: Creating a timer that counts up from a timestamp
body: <p>What I am looking to do is create a timer that starts counting up from a given timestamp basically telling my how long it has been since this point in time.</p>
  
  <p>an example timestamp would be this <code>1365679237087</code></p>
  
  <p>I was looking at the <code>Chronometer</code> but if i set the base to the timestamp it gives me all these ascii characters instead of counting up from the time.</p>
  
  <p>example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>timer = (Chronometer)v.findViewById(R.id.chronometer1);
  timer.setBase(1365679237087);
  timer.start(); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is that not how to use the chronometer?</p>
  
  <p>is there another solution to get what I want to do</p>