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javascripttimercountdown

Javascript skips seconds


I'm a newbie to javascript and I am trying to create a 6 hours countdown timer before it executes a specified function but the time display is totally wrong

what am I doing wrong and how do I get this to properly display in Hours, Minutes and Seconds?

Here is the code

function startTimer(duration, display) {
  var start = Date.now(),
    diff,
    minutes,
    seconds;

  function timer() {
    // get the number of seconds that have elapsed since 
    // startTimer() was called
    diff = duration - (((Date.now() - start) / 1000) | 0);

    // does the same job as parseInt truncates the float
    minutes = (diff / 60 * 360) | 0;
    seconds = (diff % 60) | 0;

    minutes = minutes < 10 ? "0" + minutes : minutes;
    seconds = seconds < 10 ? "0" + seconds : seconds;

    display.textContent = minutes + ":" + seconds;

    if (diff <= 0) {
      // add one second so that the count down starts at the full duration
      // example 05:00 not 04:59
      start = Date.now() + 1000;
    }
  };
  // we don't want to wait a full second before the timer starts
  timer();
  setInterval(timer, 1000);
}

window.onload = function() {
  var fiveMinutes = 60 * 2,
    display = document.querySelector('#time');
  startTimer(fiveMinutes, display);
};
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Solution

  • <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    
    <head></head>
    
    <body>
      <div id='time'></div>
    
      <script type="text/javascript">
        function startTimer(duration, display) {
    
          setInterval(function() {
            duration = duration - 1;
            if (duration == -1) {
              clearInterval(duration);
              return;
            }
    
            var seconds = duration % 60;
            var minutes = Math.floor(duration / 60);
            var hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
            minutes %= 60;
            hours %= 60;
    
            display.textContent = hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
    
          }, 1000);
        }
    
        window.onload = function() {
          var sixhours = 60 * 60 * 6
          display = document.querySelector('#time');
          startTimer(sixhours, display);
        };
      </script>
    </body>
    
    </html>