Setting Date in Javascript

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I downloaded this countdown script from themeforest and the author isnt too responsive. I'm trying to set the countdown script to count down to June 1st, 2014 but for some reason its currently displaying 117 days.. here is the script:

// init countdown
    var countdown_time = $("#countdown-widget").data('time');
    var countdown_timezone = $("#countdown-widget").data('timezone');

    if(countdown_time != '') {
        launchTime = new Date(Date.parse(countdown_time));
    }else{
        launchTime = new Date(2014, 6, 01, 0); // Set launch: [year], [month], [day], [hour]...
        //launchTime.setDate(launchTime.getDate() + 15); // Add 15 days
    }
    if(countdown_timezone == '')
        countdown_timezone = null;

    $("#countdown-widget").countdown({
        until: launchTime,
        format: "dHMS",
        labels: ['','','','','','',''],
        digits:['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9'],
        timezone: countdown_timezone,
        onTick: _onTick
    });

what did i do wrong?

Scott Heaberlin · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-06 02:04:52Z

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In the JavaScript Date constructor, the month value should be "zero based". This means you need to add one to whatever you really want - for example, January is 0, not 1. Because of this, you are actually calculating to July 1, 2014, which is 118 days (here in my Eastern US time zone, GMT-5) from the date of this post. I am assuming you are ahead of me in the time zone world :)

Try this:

launchTime = new Date(2014, 5, 01, 0);

answered Mar 6, 2014 at 2:04

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Joe Bobby Over a year ago

i will it said i had to wait 1 minute :)

Scott Heaberlin Over a year ago

in the vein of "teach them to fish" here's a tip more constructive than "basic debugging." If you use Chrome, you can open the Developer Tools tool (built in) and click the Console tab. In it, you can actually type live JavaScript code - for example, when I ran new Date(2014, 5, 01, 0); I immediately noticed Tue Jul 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT-0400 (EDT) and not the intended June. This is a good technique for trying individual lines of code at a time. All of the modern browsers have some form of Developer Tools or JavaScript Console available to this end. Cheers!

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