<countdown/>

Attributes

year
year=number

Sets the year.

month
month={number, month_name}

Sets the month.

day
day={number, day_name}

Sets the weekday.

mday
mday=number

Sets the day of the month.

hour
hour=number

Sets the hour.

minute
minute=number

Sets the minute.

second
second=number

Sets the second.

iso
iso=year-month-day

Sets the year, month and day all at once (YYYY-MM-DD, YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MMM-DD)

<countdown iso='2020-FEB-12'/> 7104 days

event
event=easter,gregorian-easter,julian-easter,christmas,christmas-day,christmas-eve

Sets the time of an evet to count down to.

years
years=number

Add this number of years to the result.

months
months=number

Add this number of months to the result.

weeks
weeks=number

Add this number of weeks to the result.

days
days=number

Add this number of days to the result.

hours
hours=number

Add this number of hours to the result.

beats
beats=number

Add this number of beats to the result.

minutes
minutes=number

Add this number of minutes to the result.

seconds
seconds=number

Add this number of seconds to the result.

now
now=year-month-day

Sets the 'present' time, if other than really present time. (YYYY-MM-DD, YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MMM-DD)

<countdown now="1999-12-24" year="2000" display="days"/> 8

display
display={when, years, months, weeks, days, hours, beats, minutes, seconds, combined, dogyears, boolean}

display=when	Shows when the time will occur. All arguments that are valid in a <date> tag can be used to modify the display.
display=years	How many years until the time.
display=months	How many months until the time.
display=weeks	How many weeks until the time.
display=days	How many days until the time.
display=hours	How many hours until the time. <countdown day="friday" display="hours"/> 34
display=beats	How many beats until the time.
display=minutes	How many minutes until the time.
display=seconds	How many seconds until the time.
display=combined	Shows an english text describing the time period. Example: 2 days, 1 hour and 5 seconds. You may use the 'prec' attribute to limit how precise the description is. Also, you can use the 'month' attribute if you want to see years/months/days instead of years/weeks/days. The world will go under in <countdown year='2038' display='combined' prec='day'/>. The world will go under in 37 years, 4 months and 1 day.
display=dogyears	How many dog-years until the time. (With one decimal) <countdown years="2" display="dogyears"/> 14.0
display=boolean	Return true or false (1 or 0), depending on if the time is now or not. The fuzziness of 'now' is decided by the 'prec' option. <p>Is this a Sunday?</p> <define variable='var.test' preparse=''><countdown day='sunday' display='boolean'/></define> <if variable='var.test = 1'>Yes, this is a Sunday.</if> <else>No, it isn´t.</else> Is this a Sunday? No, it isn´t.

type
type=type

As for 'date'. Useful values for type include string, number and ordered.

lang
lang=langcodes

The language in which the result should be written if the type is string.

Heute ist es ungefähr <countdown event='christmas' display='months' type='string' lang='de'/> Monate bis Weinachten. Heute ist es ungefähr drei Monate bis Weinachten.

since

Negate the period of time.

I am <countdown iso='1980-06-28' since='' display='years' type='string'/> years old. I am twenty years old.

next

Always count down to the next event. <countdown day='friday' next=''> says 6 on a friday as opposed to 0 without the next attribute.

It is <countdown day='monday' next=''/> to monday. It is 4 days to monday.

prec
prec={year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second}

modifies the precision for 'boolean'- and 'combined'-arguments.