Question

I want to set GMT+5:30 as my timezone in jquery countdown.
Start Time for countdown is ‘Thu May 20 16:00:00 IST 2010’
End Time is ‘Thu May 20 17:00:00 IST 2010’ as value.

+330 is my timezone given in minutes.
But my countdown starts from 00:35:00.
I would have expected the countdown to start from 01:00:00
Not sure why this is discrepancy is there.

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            var endTime = '#{myBean.getCountDownDate()}';
            $('#defaultCountdown').countdown({
                until: endTime, format: 'HMS',
                timezone: +330,
                compact: true, description: '#{myBean.getCountDownDate()}'});
        });
    </script>

Answer 1

When using the until parameter the countdown plugin counts down until that time.

This will run for one hour using the correct offset.

$('#countdown').countdown({
    until: $.countdown.UTCDate(+330, 2010, 6-1, 20, 17),
    format: 'HMS',
    compact: true
});

Since 2010:06:20:17 has already passed it will display 00:00:00.

I would bet the reason you got 00:35:00 in your countdown is that you were looking at it around 2010:06:20:16:25.