Bug in TuxCon Website

Here comes July 9th 2016 and the start of TuxCon ... with a bug on their website! The image above is taken during the first talk of the conference. Obviously the count down timer is completely off.

In init.js:100 there is this piece of code

var finalDate = '2016/07/09';

$('div#counter').countdown(finalDate)
.on('update.countdown', function(event) {
    $(this).html(event.strftime('<span>%D <em>days</em></span>' +
                                '<span>%H <em>hours</em></span>' +
                                '<span>%M <em>minutes</em></span>' +
                                '<span>%S <em>seconds</em></span>'));
});

It counts backwards and updates the HTML until finalDate is reached. Then the HTML is no longer updated and the default values are shown, which in this case are non zero. A simple patch fixes the problem.

Initialize your variables properly and happy testing!