Timers & countdowns
Event countdown
Count down to the moment that matters — a launch, a deadline, midnight on New Year. Pick a target, watch it tick, and share a link that lands everyone on the very same countdown.
How to use the event countdown
Choose the moment
Set the date, time and the zone it is defined in. That combination fixes a single instant on the global timeline.
Name the event
A title makes the countdown legible when you come back to it or share it with someone else.
Watch it run
The counter ticks down in your own local time against that fixed instant, so it stays correct even if you travel or your clocks change.
Share the link
The event is encoded in the URL. Anyone who opens it sees the same countdown reaching zero at the same moment, in their own local time.
One instant, counted down from everywhere
A countdown to a global event has to be anchored to an instant rather than to a local time, or it means different things to different people. A product launch "at midnight" is a different moment in every zone; a launch at a specific UTC instant is one moment that everyone counts toward together, arriving at their own local hour.
That distinction is the whole design here. The event is stored as a fixed instant derived from the date, time and zone you set, and each viewer's browser renders the remaining time against their own clock. Travelling, or passing through a daylight-saving change, does not shift the target — the remaining time simply stays correct.
It also removes the arithmetic from the announcement. Rather than publishing a table of local start times and hoping nobody misreads their row, you publish one link. Every reader sees the same counter, and nobody has to work out which of the listed zones is theirs.
Because the event lives in the URL, nothing is stored on a server. The link is the state, which means it works indefinitely, can be pasted anywhere, and involves no account and no stored record of the event.
When you'd reach for it
Product launches
Give a global audience one shared moment rather than a list of local times.
Ticket sales
Count down to the exact instant a sale opens, wherever buyers are.
Deadlines
Show a team how long remains until a submission cut-off in an agreed zone.
Streams and premieres
Let viewers see exactly when a broadcast starts in their own terms.
Personal milestones
A trip, a birthday, a move — anything worth watching approach.
Maintenance windows
Count down to a scheduled outage so every region sees the same start.
Questions & answers
- Does everyone see the same countdown?
- Yes. The share link encodes one absolute moment in time, so every viewer counts down to the identical instant — the remaining time is the same wherever they are in the world.
- How do I share a countdown?
- Set your event name and target time, then use “Copy share link”. The link carries the event, so anyone who opens it lands on the same live countdown.
- Does the countdown keep running if I switch tabs?
- The countdown re-synchronises to the real clock every second, so it stays accurate even after the tab has been in the background.