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Well, this is embarrassing. I misread "Math.max(0,2 * ...)" in the code as "Math.max(0.2 * ...)". Asking Wolfram Alpha the right thing says a+f+x=0 when a = -13.9598. So yeah, July 20, as very honest and Humanoid have been saying all along.

OK, so the value of a is, at any point in time, the number of days left until countDownDate (5 PM on July 6). It's pretty close to +1 as I'm writing this but it will become negative after countDownDate has passed. Oddly enough there's no attempt in the code to specify a timezone for countDownDate so I presume the value of a will only be correct if your browser is in the same timezone as the UK. f = (6-a)*0.85 x = - (0.2 * (-1.7-a))2 / 200 <- THIS BIT IS WRONG. IGNORE THIS ENTIRE POST. SORRY. What the countdown shows is a+f+x. So, for what values of a are a+f+x exactly zero? There will be two such values, because a+f+x = 0 is a second-degree equation. Solving it wouldn't be rocket science but it's easiest to just ask Wolfram Alpha. Click "approximate forms" to see the solutions expressed numerically. One solution is 779.32. It's positive, which means the counter was zero at one point in May 2015, and then counted up for a good while! Good thing there was no page back then because it would have been confusing. (Determining at what exact time the countdown started going down again is left as an exercise for the reader.) The other solution is minus 32.717 and that's the one we want. The countdown will reach zero 32.717 days after countDownDate, which is at 10:12 AM on August 8. Again, probably UK time. Unless I've made an error, or they change the code again.

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