Adding separators to existing JS function

Question

I'm terrible when it comes to JS. I have a small script that I am using in a Wordpress installation for a continually updating counter. Here is the code I am using:

window.setInterval(function () {
   var countStart = 147000000000;

   var count = countStart + (new Date().getTime() - new Date('12/16/2015').getTime())/.900;

   jQuery("#counter2").text(count.toFixed(0));
}, 1);

How can I amend this to output the number with thousands separators? I am aware of the numerous threads on the topic of thousands separators, but cannot seem to make any suggestions work with what I have already.

Possible duplicate of [How to print a number with commas as thousands separators in JavaScript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2901102/how-to-print-a-number-with-commas-as-thousands-separators-in-javascript) — forgivenson, Dec 17 '15 at 12:38
Possible duplicate of [add commas to a number in jQuery](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3883342/add-commas-to-a-number-in-jquery) — itamar, Dec 17 '15 at 12:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '15 at 12:39

There is the toLocaleString() method:

jQuery("#counter2").text(count.toFixed(0).toLocaleString('en'));

It will add the thousands separator, as it is specified for the locale. English uses comma as the thousands separator, and dot for decimal mark.

For example this

var count = 102012.123;
console.log(count.toLocaleString('en'));

yields: 102,012.123.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '15 at 12:40

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try this:

function formatNumber(){
  var a = 1234567890;
  console.log( Number(a.toFixed(0)).toLocaleString())
}

answered Dec 17 '15 at 12:40

Rajesh

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '15 at 20:39

So this was the answer that worked for me provided by a friend:

    window.setInterval(function () {
    var countStart = 147000000000;
    var myDate = new Date().getTime() - new Date('12/16/2015').getTime();
    var count = countStart + (myDate) / 0.900;
    var countSeparated = Number(count.toFixed(0)).toLocaleString();
  jQuery("#counter2").text(countSeparated);
}, 1);

For reasons beyond my abilities, the above two answers worked in a console but not in my script within Wordpress

Adding separators to existing JS function

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