# Effective use of Timers in Rules

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/effective-use-of-timers-in-rules/25016>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [March 14, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/effective-use-of-timers-in-rules/25016 "2017-03-14T21:44:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 23

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rlkoshak](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/rlkoshak/32/75251_2.png) [@rlkoshak](https://community.openhab.org/u/rlkoshak)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/effective-use-of-timers-in-rules/25016/23 "2021-08-08T15:16:47Z")

</div>

You forgot your design pattern. 😃 [Design Pattern : Expire Binding based Countdown timer](https://community.openhab.org/t/design-pattern-expire-binding-based-countdown-timer/49225)

Note that I’ve a JavaScript library implementation for this DP now too. [https://github.com/rkoshak/openhab-rules-tools/tree/main/countdown\_timer](https://github.com/rkoshak/openhab-rules-tools/tree/main/countdown_timer)

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.openhab.org/t/effective-use-of-timers-in-rules/25016)._