adding a function to jquery countdowntimer plugin jCountdown

Question

hi i would like to use this plugin, but it does not have an option to stop counting, or change the countdown timer value:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jCountdown

how can this featuer be added?

thank you!

Answer 1

It seems to me the example on that very link shows how the countdown timer value is changed to show only the days, and I think that if you wrap the setup for your countdown timer in an if statement comparing the current date to the target date, you could choose to not show the timer. If the timer is something like 5 minutes away, then you should create a tick function that also checks to see if the current tick is less than the target date and hide the countdown. Effectively stopping it. I assume you could also re-setup the countdown timer to change it's target date.