Ive managed to follow instructions from a website to create a countdown timer which is very simular to this one: (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/js-building-countdown-timer#prerequisites). What i cant get it to do is automatically reset. ive tried various different ways but to no success. ive got 3 timers on a page all counting down to zero:
- counts down to 8:00pm each day.
- counts down to 8:15pm each Wednesday.
- counts down to 8:30pm on the 1st of each month. any ideas on how i can do this? cheers in advance.
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Heya,
you’ll need to add a function to check if the target time has been reached and, if so, reset the timer to its starting value. You can do this by comparing the current time and the target time.
Here’s a basic idea of how to achieve this:
Create a function that will set the target time for each of your countdown timers, then modify your countdown function to call the function when the timer reaches 0, and then call itself again.
Then you can call the countdown function for each of your timers, passing the appropriate timer type (daily, weekly, or monthly)
Hope that this helps!
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