auto increment loop not working

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6v6gt:
It is not nice to update a for loop control variable in the for loop

timer=0;

This is rather odd. Under what circumstances do you think this if statement is/is not going to be true ?

if (timer/1000){

. . .
}

This is my attempt to have a smaller clock variable to work with instead of having to worry about long numbers. 1200 is not divisable by 1000 without a remainder, but maybe the syntax is what I'm missing to be able to evaluate that properly.

setting timer back to 0 continues the loop. is this unnecessary code?