NYT Election Coverage for the Impatient

gistfile1.txt

//In the Javascript console on http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president, paste the following:

NYTD.NYTINT.Bigboard.Bigboard.prototype.render_timer = function() {
      // Do nothing if the board isn't live.
      if (!this.is_live()) {
        return false;
      }

      // If we've counted to zero, re-load the data.
      // Otherwise, decrement the counter.
      if (this.interval <= 0) {
        this.fetch();
      } else {
        this.interval = this.interval - 5; // or however quickly you want to count down from 30 seconds
      }

      // Compute the time-remaining string
      var minutes = Math.floor(this.interval / 60);
      var seconds = this.interval % 60;
      if (seconds < 10) {
        seconds = '0' + seconds;
      }

      $(".countdown-timer").show().html(minutes + ':' + seconds);
    };