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[DomiBonza]

Hi, is there a way to make the plugin do a normal count instead of a count down?

[FagnerMartinsBrack]

It seems to be semantically out of scope of this plugin. It would make sense though if the author would change the namespace from jQuery.countdown to jQuery.count

[hilios]

@DomiBonza at least the math should work both for all real number group, but I have a conditional that clear the timeout if countdown reachs its end, if the former assumption is true so a simple conditional to not do that would do the job for you.

@FagnerMartinsBrack I think changing the name is not a option for matter of fallback consistency and historical reasons, but we could provide an alias.

[DomiBonza]

Thank you for the explanation :)

[hilios]

Hey mate, I think your request could be implement as a feature in the next release!!! I will reopen this issue until is implemented in the master. Tks

[FagnerMartinsBrack]

@hilios I did not meant actually a name change, but an alias as you mentioned (maybe deprecate and use countdown as a property?)

[DomiBonza]

@hilios It would be awesome :)

[hilios]

Guys a co-worker did small workaround on my plugin that I think that will be the solution of this issue. Look at PR #52, to take part on the discussion.

[hilios]

Already implemented at master, the example bellow will count 5 sec from now and then start to count up:

var fiveSecAgo = new Date().getTime() + 5000;
$dom.countdown(oneSecAgo, {elapse: true}).on('update.countdown', function(event) {
    if (event.elapsed) {
         event.strftime('%S passed from end');
    } else {
         event.strftime('%S till finish');
    }
});

[onskyD]

https://gist.github.com/onskyD/cc7547b8c536f58ea3e1d61ce6dadc2c#file-scripts-js