NodeJS countdown: How do I define minutes?

Very simple question. I've got a NodeJS application using countdown (https://www.npmjs.com/package/countdown). The countdown itself works.

However, I don't know how to set it to 8 minutes?

The command is:

countdown( new Date(2000, 0, 1) ).toString();

I've tried, but I don't get it to less than 47 years. I'm new to all of this. Could anyone help? Feel like this is a very stupid question, but yeah... Yes, I've read the documentation.

The countdown is supposed to count down 8 minutes from the moment it's run. It's not supposed to run from a fixed dated until a fixed date.

Solution

You need to create a Date object that is 8 minutes in the future.

You can create one based on the current date, and then use setMinutes to increase that by 8 minutes:

let later = new Date();
later.setMinutes(later.getMinutes() + 8);

countdown(
    later,
    function(ts) {
      document.getElementById('pageTimer').innerHTML = ts.toHTML("strong");
    },
    countdown.HOURS|countdown.MINUTES|countdown.SECONDS);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/countdown/2.6.0/countdown.js"></script>

<span id="pageTimer"></span>