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What are you looking forward to? See the seconds tick down to your vacation, wedding, or retirement. Share your countdown by copying the web address (URL). The countdown automatically adjusts for DST changes in the selected location.

Example : Say now my current time is 1pm. Now for example in my admin panel I am creating an event now. The start of the event is tomorrow 1pm. So now in my admin panel I select the start time of event to tomorrow 1 pm. Now the time remaining for the event is 24 hours. So now in my website the countdown timer starts for the event like :Time left for the event : 24h:0m:0s and this timer goes in decreasing order. Now the issue is that the timer is taking the time from my computer. If I change the time on my computer, the count down timer on my website also changes.

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This article focuses on the Countdown timer web part, which allows you to display a count down (or count up) to an event. You can add a title, set the date format, add a description, and a call to action button with a link.

So when the computer loads in boot it lands on the Manjaro selector screen witch allows you to choose Manjaro default boot, advanced or Windows boot manager. It counts down from 5 and then auto loads whatever was loaded last.

I want to implement something just like this, with a countdown timer autuomatically showing the next upcoming item from a list (in my case a list of operatonal deadlines). I am a total newbie with Automate and any advice would be very welcome!

I'm looking for an elegant way to keep a running countdown timer on the screen for when we schedule a system reboot (usually a one-hour timer). I could probably hack something together (like a constantly-refreshing CocoaDialog window) and have done so in the past, but I imagine there has to be a better solution out there.

jamfHelper has a counter display and a countdown function. You can make jamfHelper windows appear with no buttons, so in essense it would be a window they couldn't dismiss but would show a countdown. The only issue is the default text when using a countdown is "Please make a selection" or something like that, which doesn't make sense since the users wouldn't be selecting anything. Just watching it count down.

This script does a 5 minute countdown (from 300 seconds down to 0) before disappearing. If you couple that with something like a shutdown -r +300 & command in your script right at the time the progress bar appears, it would start a 300 second reboot time and push it to the background and allow the rest of the script to run, meaning right after the progress bar disappears the Mac will reboot. You can change the variables up a little but the $progLeft one should stay at 100 to start with since that's the "full" progress bar it starts off with.

Ok, here is my modified script which corrects for any drift and displays minutes as well as seconds. Going to keep working on this, I think it may be a better way to go since the jamfHelper countdown option has hard-coded dialogue which doesn't fit my needs, and I agree with doing a "shutdown now" at the end rather than a delayed shutdown command running the whole time.

Looks good! Wow, you're giving them a 60 minute countdown? That's pretty generous. Or was that just for testing purposes?

BTW, I actually timed the script using my iPhone stopwatch and there is no drift from what I can tell. It displayed for exactly 5 minutes in my tests.

I did notice one thing in my limited testing, and you may want to verify. When the progress bar dialog is up, the end user can quit the dialog by pressing Command-Q. The timer still keeps counting down and executes any code after your last done statement, if there is any. However, if the user can quit that, they may think the timer has stopped.

Regarding drift and system sleep: I just ran a quick test and since the timer is constantly syncing with the system clock, time spent sleeping counts towards the timer. Sleep/resume works as you would expect in that scenario. I'm actually not sure which behavior I would prefer, I will have to think about that.

@Potter you need to use the -timeout switch to set the number of seconds before the window times out. The -countdown switch then displays the timer counting down. If you do not put the -countdown switch in, there will be no timer counting down on the jamfHelper Window.

cocoaDialog can customize the timeout text or just remove it altogether, but even there your options are limited. You can leave the default text which states something like "timeout in [time left]" where [time left] is an actual countdown that ticks by. Or you can specify a blank text string which removes the timeout indicator completely. Or you can specify some static text to display but you won't get an actual countdown appear in the dialog.

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Set the hour, minute, and second for the online countdown timer, and start it. Alternatively, you can set the date and time to count days, hours, minutes, and seconds till (or from) the event. The timer triggered alert will appear, and the pre-selected sound will be played at the set time.

5). Today I noticed that if I manually change my windows 10 system time to be off (-34 seconds, or +34 seconds), the ebay countdown clock breaks, and starts behaving erratically. See my test here: _countdown_clock_broken.mp4

7). When refreshing the page (on an auction with only seconds left), you can still briefly see the correct time remaining displayed for a split second (in black font) before the broken countdown script replaces it with a wrong value in red font.

I am a career programmer myself, and it almost seems like ebay replaced an excellent countdown script that used a server-calculated value for the time remaining, to one that foolishly uses a JavaScript Date.getTime() function instead.

Some final second counters on ebay seem to have been reprogrammed at some point this year (2022), and are now vulnerable to erratic behavior when the client computer (bidder's computer) is not perfectly time-synced to a time server.

Depending on whether your computer's time is off with a positive value or a negative value, auctions seem to end abruptly with time still remaining, or they may seem to end and continue to allow bids, or even seem to add extra minutes or seconds.

For now, the only workaround seems to be to rely on the Bid history page countdown, which appears to be unaffected as of this writing (who knows in the future). And maybe the seconds can be adjusted in BIOS.

Since the countdown clock is a script, what you see can be several seconds behind what was sent by ebay then received and displayed on your device. That can happen because of your IP's system, use of your routed by others in your home, cookies taking up space and slowing page loading ... etc.. If you open an auction a fair amount of time in advance of its end, and do not refresh the page on occasion the lag may increase.

Even with my clock "synced", I've found that I need to bid with a minimum of 8 seconds left to get my bid in with 2 seconds left. If I am bidding on an item I really want I'll sometimes place a 1 increment bid several minutes earlier, paying attention to the countdown clock time and checking the bid history in another tab to see when it registered there. That will give me an idea of the lag time, so I know how much earlier I have to bid before placing my max bid.

As verified by my testing, the countdown script is now dependent on the client computer's clock. This is a recent change, and it is incredibly bad practice. Why was the script changed? The previous script didn't care what the system time in my computer was. It still knew exactly how much time was left, because it was getting that value from the server. This is the way it should be done, and used to be done. As I mentioned, when refreshing the page you can still see the correct second value in black font for a split second, before it gets overwritten with an incorrect value in red font. Please think about this for a moment.

I have programmed countdown scripts like this myself in my own job as a software developer, and you just can't rely on the client computer's clock for critical things. You never know what device the customer will be running it on, and how many seconds it is off.

For example, one time I was programming a countdown clock for a factory production line. If I simply used the system clock from whatever device it was running on, the reliability of my countdown clock was going to be all over the place, and not know what timezone to use. The way to do it is to get the remaining time value from the server, and start counting down from there.

You mentioned that "the lag may increase if you leave the page open". This is mostly incorrect in this case. For this to happen, you would need to leave the page unrefreshed for months, in a computer with no time syncing. Yet auctions only last 3-10 days, and I always refresh on the last day, probably several times just for OCD's sake. Also, if you want to be incredibly precise, like atomic clock level of precise, you can develop your webpage to be that level of accurate if needed, like what NIST did for their page, . It even compensates for network latency. So can ebay be at least precise to the second, you know, like before? I don't need millisecond accuracy, but being accurate to a half minute at best is just completely unacceptable for last minute bidding.

You said I should "Do an online search for How to synchronize your clock in Windows 10". Ah, of course I have done this many, many times. You see, the problem in my computer is that the time syncing service, "Windows Time" stubbornly refuses to run. Even by command line. And GUI options for it are grayed out. So it's not about the server it's using to sync. The service won't even run to begin with. e24fc04721