Question: I want to use a simple countdown timer starting at 30 seconds from when the function is run and ending at 0. No milliseconds. How can it be coded?

Answer: 
Here is another one if anyone needs one for minutes and seconds:

```
    var mins = 10;  //Set the number of minutes you need
    var secs = mins * 60;
    var currentSeconds = 0;
    var currentMinutes = 0;
    /* 
     * The following line has been commented out due to a suggestion left in the comments. The line below it has not been tested. 
     * setTimeout('Decrement()',1000);
     */
    setTimeout(Decrement,1000); 

    function Decrement() {
        currentMinutes = Math.floor(secs / 60);
        currentSeconds = secs % 60;
        if(currentSeconds <= 9) currentSeconds = "0" + currentSeconds;
        secs--;
        document.getElementById("timerText").innerHTML = currentMinutes + ":" + currentSeconds; //Set the element id you need the time put into.
        if(secs !== -1) setTimeout('Decrement()',1000);
    }

```
You can do as follows with pure JS. You just need to provide the function with the number of seconds and it will do the rest.

```js
var insertZero = n => n < 10 ? "0"+n : ""+n,
   displayTime = n => n ? time.textContent = insertZero(~~(n/3600)%3600) + ":" +
                                             insertZero(~~(n/60)%60) + ":" +
                                             insertZero(n%60)
                        : time.textContent = "IGNITION..!",
 countDownFrom = n => (displayTime(n), setTimeout(_ => n ? sid = countDownFrom(--n)
                                                         : displayTime(n), 1000)),
           sid;
countDownFrom(3610);
setTimeout(_ => clearTimeout(sid),20005);
```

```html
<div id="time"></div>
```