Template talk:Countdown/Archive 1

Where and how should this be used?
A minor controversy recently came up at the Nintendo 3DS page over whether or not the countdown should be used, so I decided that I'd ask here. Is this a user-page-only sort of thing or does it have a practical use inside of an article? Thanks,  TheStickMan  [✆Talk] 16:58, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Duration?
For the advanced set up, what units exactly are used for the "duration" part? Is it seconds? Great Pikmin Fan ( TD ) ( Talk ) 00:22, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Localisation bug
As plural form is appended to the singular form of Week, Day, Hour and Minute, this template breaks when localised into other languages(Tried on Telugu WP). Replaced s suffix of plural with blank(space) and updated main words with Telugu plural suffix in parenthesis, to make it work. Could be considered for future improvement. Arjunaraoc (talk) 06:10, 14 December 2013 (UTC)


 * This template is at the English Wikipedia and only made for English. If other languages want a version then they must make changes for their language. I don't know anything about the Telugu language but maybe the following will be of help. English makes plural with code like this: . The code works because "week" is always there and an expression determines whether to add "s". The same result could have been achieved with this code which doesn't rely on making plural by adding something to the end:  . Examples (see source): 1 week1 undefined, 2 week2 undefineds, 1 1 week, 2 2 weeks. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:36, 15 December 2013 (UTC)