What's up with IE and my countdown script?

[Spudhead]

<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?

[A1ien51]

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

Eric

[Spudhead]

Originally Posted by A1ien51

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?

[A1ien51]

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

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

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

Eric