Javascript Countdown

Question

I have searched the web but all the ones readily available are where you specificy a date and it counts down to that date. What I need is something which will simply count d

Answer 1

I have made a simple countdown you can use.

It is generating the format:

DAYS X, HOURS X, MINUTES X, SECONDS X

The JS:

countIt();

function countIt(){
    year = 2013;
    month = 05;
    day = 28;
    hours = 12;
    minutes = 00;
    seconds = 00;

    setTimeout(function(){
    endDate = new Date(year, (month - 1), day, hours, minutes, seconds, 00);
    thisDate  = new Date();
    thisDate  = new Date(thisDate.getFullYear(), thisDate.getMonth(), thisDate.getDate(), thisDate.getHours(), thisDate.getMinutes(), thisDate.getSeconds(), 00, 00);

    var daysLeft = parseInt((endDate-thisDate)/86400000);
    var hoursLeft = parseInt((endDate-thisDate)/3600000); 
    var minutsLeft = parseInt((endDate-thisDate)/60000);
    var secondsLeft = parseInt((endDate-thisDate)/1000);

    seconds = minutsLeft*60;
    seconds = secondsLeft-seconds;

    minutes = hoursLeft*60;
    minutes = minutsLeft-minutes;

    hours = daysLeft*24;
    hours = (hoursLeft-hours) < 0 ? 0 : hoursLeft-hours;

    days = daysLeft;

    startCount(days, hours, minutes,seconds);
    }, 1000);
}

function startCount(days, hours, minutes, seconds){
    document.getElementById("counter").innerHTML="DAYS "+days+", HOURS "+hours+", MINUTES "+minutes+", SECONDS: "+seconds;
    countIt();
}

The HTML:

Click here to see it live