Question

I’m trying to show a simple countdown from 2 hours like so:

$(function () {

    var timeout = new Date(20000); 

    $('#countdown').countdown({until: timeout, compact: true, format: 'HMS'});
});

However I just get 00:00:00, any ideas why?

Answer 1

You get 00:00:00, because new Date(20000); is actually

Thu Jan 01 1970 00:00:20 GMT+0000 (GMT)

like 40 years ago. 😀 What you need to do is either:

var timeout = new Date(Date.now() + 20000);

or

var timeout = 20000;

By the way: two hours is not 20000, it is

1000 (ms) * 60 (s) * 60 (min) * 2 == 7200000