What's up with IE and my countdown script?

<script type="text/javascript">
function updateCountdown(){
var today = new Date(); //today's date
var today2 = new Date(today.getFullYear(), today.getMonth(), today.getDate(), today.getHours(), today.getMinutes(), today.getSeconds());
var launch = new Date(2007, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0); //Launch date
var diff = launch-today2; //difference in milliseconds
var seconds = new String(diff/1000); //calculate seconds and convert to string
document.getElementById("countDown").innerHTML = "<p>That's only " + seconds + " seconds away.</p>";
setTimeout("updateCountdown()",1000);
}
</script>



Ok, it's not pretty but... well, it works in Firefox, it works in Opera, there's no warnings or anything. In IE7 (Win) I get an error message on the line:

var today = new Date(); //today's date

that tells me simply "unknown runtime error". And no countdown appears.

Am I being a muppet again? :o

why are you setting the second date with the same exact information new Date() has?

Eric

why are you setting the second date with the same exact information new Date() has?

Eric

New Date() will give me a millisecond value, that I don't need and that would give me a decimal number of seconds when I divide the millisecond count by 1000. I want an integer. Yes, I know I can just cInt it but hey, I didn't say it was pretty. Why would that be related to an "unknown runtime error" message?

Why don't you set the millisecond value to zero?

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_setMilliseconds.asp

for the run time, I have no clue, is all of the whitespace throwing IE off? you never know. LOL

Eric