The countdown currently shows time remaining until the event ENDS. This is useless. It should show how much time remains until the event STARTS. Who wants to arrive at the end of the basketball tournament? When people see an event countdown timer shows 2 hours and they know that the event lasts 3 hours, they believe there are 5 hours until it ends. But this is wrong for the MEC countdown timer. At the very least, add an option to determine whether to show the time until the event starts, or the time until the event ends.
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5 thought on Countdown has big bug
I got the same problem and I have investigated this at least 2 hours. And at first I thought it is a bug as well. But by looking at the sourcecode it can be solved by a setting: Settings -> General -> Hide Events -> On event start. This setting influences the Countdown as well!! (But it is not mentioned in the documentation).
You could also change the code on line 77 (classic Countdown) or line 91 (flip countdown) by replacing ($ongoing ? $end_time : $start_time) with ($start_time).
But I think it is better to change just the setting 🙂
I think it is a kind of a bug, but now with a workaround (just pick not the last option in the dropdown, everythin else works fine). Btw @ webnus team: the code of the problem is in app\modules\countdown\details.php
you CAN modify this already, in the event details time & date there is a countdown option. I agree that the default should count down to the event start though! but you are able to change this.
look for “Countdown method” at the bottom in the date/time section while adding an event. the “inherit from global options seems misleading as I couldn’t find any other countdown related settings.
hey @Kristen, have a look at my comment before. The global settings for the Countdown start/end are hidden behind “Settings -> General -> Hide Events -> On event start”. But it for the global settings it is not obvious where to adjust it