What macOS shows on its own
Calendar shows the event; nothing in macOS counts down to it in the menu bar.
How Multimeter shows it
- The full scale is the whole countdown, from the moment you set it up to the date, so the bar shows how much of the wait is left.
- Updates once a minute when days away, every 15 seconds within a day, and every second in the last hour.
- Faces turn yellow in the last 5 minutes and red in the last minute.
Set it up
- Choose Add Meter… and pick Countdown.
- Pick the date and time in Customize.
- Give it a label like LAUNCH so you know what it’s counting to.
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Questions
What happens when the countdown reaches zero?
The meter shows Done.