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Countdown to a date — live days, hours, minutes

A live countdown to any date and time, ticking down in days, hours, minutes and seconds. Times are treated as UTC, so a countdown you share reads the same for everyone.

Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Interpreted as UTC, so it reads the same for everyone you share it with.

Pick a date and time to count down to.

Times are treated as UTC so a shared countdown reads identically for everyone, regardless of where they are or whether their clocks have changed for daylight saving.

How to use

  1. Pick the target date and time. The countdown starts immediately and updates every second.
  2. Read the breakdown. Days, hours, minutes and seconds, plus totals in days and hours.
  3. Past dates count up. If the moment has already passed, it shows how long ago instead.

Questions

Why is the time treated as UTC?

So a shared countdown is unambiguous. If it used your local clock, someone in another timezone would see a different number for the same event — and a daylight-saving change would shift it by an hour mid-countdown.

Does it keep running if I switch tabs?

It recalculates from the actual clock each second rather than counting ticks, so it stays accurate however long the tab was in the background.

Can I count down to something in the past?

Yes — it flips to showing elapsed time instead, which is useful for tracking how long since something happened.

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