DateAlmanac

Timers

Pick a duration and it starts immediately. Each one keeps time against your device’s clock rather than by counting ticks, so it stays accurate in a background tab, and sounds an alarm at zero.

Most used

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Why these keep time when others drift

Browsers throttle background tabs hard — an interval that should fire every second may fire once a minute, or not at all. A timer that counts down by subtracting one each tick loses that time and finishes late, sometimes by several minutes.

These store the instant they should end at and work backwards from your device’s clock, so the interval only decides how often the display repaints. Throttle it as much as you like and the answer is still right the moment you look.