Change interval in Setinterval

Question

I'm new to jQuery, I wanted to change the interval in Setinterval every time it gets executed. But in my code it's executed every 1 sec and not incrementing at all

Here's my code,

 <script>
     var time=1000;
        function myFunction() {

         setInterval(function(){ alert("Hello"); }, time);
         time=time+4000;
    }
  </script>

I think I'm getting this concept wrong, any help with brief explanation where I'm doing wrong will be helpful

[Duplicate Already Asked Here][1] how to change interval time at runtime [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10576106/setintervalfunction-time-change-time-on-runtime — Arun Sharma, Jan 15 '17 at 07:08
Possible duplicate of [Changing the interval of SetInterval while it's running](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1280263/changing-the-interval-of-setinterval-while-its-running) — sargue, Jan 15 '17 at 07:46

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 15 '17 at 06:44

setInterval is called till its stopped.

What you should use if you want variable timer is setTimeout.

 <script>
     var time=1000;
        function myFunction() {

         setTimeout(function(){ alert("Hello"); myFunction() }, time);
         time=time+4000; // seconds
    }
  </script>

Change interval in Setinterval

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