Countdown timer not working

[Annapurani_Vaidyanat]

Mytimer doesn’t count down, nor does it take the duration into account.

I’m stuck!

Here’s what I have -

Start time - now()
Duration - 0.15

I give these two values in the stopwatch elements, but the clock keeps going on even after 15 minutes.

Help please!

[Darren_Murphy]

That’s how the Stopwatch component works. Once you start it, it keeps going until you stop or pause it.

[Mark_Turrell]

It is NOT a countdown clock it is a stopwatch, something which keeps on adding time rather than counting down.

I built this rather nice thing (with the help of @Darren_Murphy) which is an actual countdown. And the nice colors are thanks to CSS wizardry from @Lucas_Pires.

[Annapurani_Vaidyanat]

Hi, thanks for your screenshots. They look lovely.

But would it possible for you to help me with how to build the countdown timer? That’s where I’m stuck.

Yes, I understand it’s a stopwatch but I’m looking for a workaround to make it countdown

[Mark_Turrell]

You have ‘Now’ - the time of now - this is part of Glide to do math
You have your start time - in my case ‘Photo’ - the time the user took the photo
You have your ‘wait time’ — in my case ‘min’ 15 mins as the min time to wait

First column is:

• countdown end = photo + min (BUT you need to adjust the math as Glide is based on 24 hour days)
  —> this gives you how many minutes in the future your end point is

Second column is:

• the time left = countdown end - now (adjusted for minutes)

And in the UX

• set the max value to your max time (in my case ‘min’)
• set the column (the data being shown) to your countdown
• and have a 0 value

And I have some bonus CSS too:

[class="circle-progress-container"] >* >* :nth-of-type(1) {
stroke: green; 
}

--- this allows me to adjust the color of the progress bar
- and I have a visibility setting --> if countdown is less than X, show this color, otherwise show another color

I hope this makes sense - good luck!

[Annapurani_Vaidyanat]

Yes it does, thanks! I’ll try it out and get back to you