jquery.countdown.js

Author	Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Maxime Haineault (haineault.com)
License	MIT License

WARNING

This documentation is not up to date with the trunk

Options

Option	Default	Description
`date`	-	JavaScript date object (ex; new Date("August 23, 2010 8:00:00"))
`msgFormat`	`'%d [day\|days] %hh %mm %ss'`	Format of the countdown string (see string format tokens below)
`msgNow`	`'Now !'`	String to display when reaching zero
`interval`	`1000`	Update interval in milliseconds

String format tokens

Token	Represents
`%y`	Year(s)
`%M`	Month(s)
`%w`	Week(s)
`%d`	Day(s)
`%h`	Hour(s)
`%m`	Minute(s)
`%s`	Second(s)

Basic usage

// default format is '%d [day|days] %hh %mm %ss'
var d = new Date();

$('#countdown-1').countdown({now: 'Happy new year !', 
    year: d.getFullYear()+1, month: d.getMonth()+1, day: d.getDate()+1, hour: 1, min: 1, sec: 1 
});

Custom format

$('#countdown-2').countdown({
    format: '%d jours, %h heures %m minutes et %s secondes',
    year: 2030, month: 12, day: 1
});

Handling plurals

$('#countdown-4').countdown({
    format: '%d [jour|jours], %h [heure|heures] %m [minute|minutes] et %s [seconde|secondes]',
    year: 2038, month: 1, day: 1
});

Now message

$('#countdown-4').countdown({
    now: 'Happy new yearbug !',
    year: 2038, month: 1, day: 1
});

Functional arguments

$('#countdown-5').countdown({year: '+1'});