Countdown Plugin Zeros Out

Curiouser and curiouser, as they say. I changed the year to 2005 and some arbitrary date, and it seemed to work. So I set date at 25, month at 12 and year at 2004 to see if perhaps we were a month off (for whatever reason). The result was 17 days and 9 hours to Thanksgiving. Not right at all, days or hours.

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yes I am having the same problems with it

Glad to hear it wasn’t just me. 😊

Reports zero for me as well :(

{exp:countdown day="20" month="2" year="2006" hours="4" event="Start Gun"}

There are 0 days and 0 hours until Start Gun

Rish, if the countdown date has expired (yours has) you’ll see 0 days and 0 hours display.

Mine works just fine on a date that is in the future.

Days Until St. Patrick’s Day There are 18 days and 18 hours until St. Patrick’s Day

Very good! One month ahead of myself 😊

All good, thanks.

I’m using the Countdown plugin (1.2) with EE 1.5.2 and the hours parameter doesn’t seem to work. I’m trying to set it to 5pm, which I have as

hours="17"

but it is being ignored. Otherwise, the day date and year are working fine. Anybody have any suggestions?

I’m using the Countdown plugin (1.2) with EE 1.5.2 and the hours parameter doesn’t seem to work. I’m trying to set it to 5pm, which I have as

hours="17"

but it is being ignored. Otherwise, the day date and year are working fine. Anybody have any suggestions?

Old topic but just installed the plugin and spotted the same problem in v1.2. Two things, the parameter should be hour=”17” and not hours and there is a bug in the code.

Line 31 in pi.countdown.php has an error, it should read…

//make unix timestamp for given date
  $countdowndate = mktime($hour, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);

It was using the $hour parameter in the seconds position of mktime.

John