This is a fork of http://code.google.com/p/jquery-countdown/ as the original author hasn’t updated the project since 10th July 2009.

Please see http://pfarmer.github.com/jquery-countdown/test.html for examples of how to setup different countdowns, documentation is coming shortly.

• startTime can be dd:hh:mm:ss or a date object.
• Automatically detect format of startTime.
• Zero pad numbers if needed.