Hours aren't working on Stopwatch

Question

I'm making a stopwatch with seconds, minutes, and hours. I want the stopwatch to reset and restart after the hours reach 59. Also, when minutes reach 59 I want the hour hands to increment. It doesn't seem to work. The left hour "hand", if you will, won't increment.. even when I stated that I wanted it to.

PLEASE NOTE SPEED "5" ON SETTIMEOUT. I SPED IT UP TO TEST HOURS. SHOULD BE "1000".

HTML:

    <ul>

        <li id="hour-greater">0</li>
        <li id="hour-lesser">0</li>
        <li>:</li>
        <li id="min-greater">0</li>
        <li id="min-lesser">0</li>
        <li>:</li>
        <li id="sec-greater">0</li>
        <li id="sec-lesser">0</li>

    </ul>

JS:

(function() {

    var secLesser = document.getElementById("sec-lesser").value,
    secGreater = document.getElementById("sec-greater").value,
    minLesser = document.getElementById("min-lesser").value,
    minGreater = document.getElementById("min-greater").value,
    hourLesser = document.getElementById("hour-lesser").value,
    hourGreater = document.getElementById("hour-greater").value;


    function stopWatch(){
        secLesser++;
        if(secLesser > 9) {
            secLesser = 0;
            secGreater++;
        } else if(secGreater + secLesser == 14){
            secGreater = 0;
            secLesser = 0;
            minLesser++;
        } else if(minLesser > 9){
            minLesser = 0;
            minGreater++;
        } else if(minGreater + minLesser == 14){
            secGreater = 0;
            secLesser = 0;
            hourLesser++;
        } else if(hourLesser > 9){
            hourLesser = 0;
            hourGreater++;
        } else if(hourGreater + hourLesser == 14){
            alert("It's been 59 hours... leave this page!");
        } 

        document.getElementById("sec-lesser").textContent = secLesser;
        document.getElementById("sec-greater").textContent = secGreater;
        document.getElementById("min-lesser").textContent = minLesser;
        document.getElementById("min-greater").textContent = minGreater;
        document.getElementById("hour-lesser").textContent = hourLesser;
        document.getElementById("hour-greater").textContent = hourGreater;
        window.setTimeout(stopWatch, 5);
    }

    stopWatch();
})();

Answer 1

the part where you have

} else if(minGreater + minLesser == 14){
            secGreater = 0;
            secLesser = 0;
            hourLesser++;

should be resetting minGreater and minLesser not secGreater/secLesser. Change it to:

} else if(minGreater + minLesser == 14){
            minGreater = 0;
            minLesser = 0;
            hourLesser++;

Oh and look into requestAnimationFrame as better alternative to setTimeout/setInterval.