Date Countdown

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Description:

This JavaScript will countdown the days, minutes, and seconds until a specified date.

JavaScript Functions:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- Activate Cloaking /* Javascript Countdown Timer (version 1.0) Copyright (C) 1997 Andrew Turi All Rights Reserved. Permission given to use this script provided that this copyright notice remains in tact. [E-mail: andrew@2-cool.com] */ var timerID; var timerRunning = false; var today = new Date(); var count = new Date(); var secPerDay = 0; var minPerDay = 0; var hourPerDay = 0; var secsLeft = 0; var secsRound = 0; var secsRemain = 0; var minLeft = 0; var minRound = 0; var dayRemain = 0; var minRemain = 0; var Expire = 0; var timeRemain = 0; var timeUp = "Type Anything You Want" // enter text to be displayed when countdown is finished var time = "0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds" //do not modify this text function stopclock (){ if(timerRunning) clearTimeout(timerID); timerRunning = false; } function startclock () { stopclock(); showtime(); } function showtime () { today = new Date(); count = new Date("December 5, 2007 12:00"); // enter date to count down to (use the same format) count.setYear(today.getYear()); secsPerDay = 1000 ; minPerDay = 60 * 1000 ; hoursPerDay = 60 * 60 * 1000; PerDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; Expire = (count.getTime() - today.getTime()) /*Seconds*/ secsLeft = (count.getTime() - today.getTime()) / minPerDay; secsRound = Math.round(secsLeft); secsRemain = secsLeft - secsRound; secsRemain = (secsRemain < 0) ? secsRemain = 60 - ((secsRound - secsLeft) * 60) : secsRemain = (secsLeft - secsRound) * 60; secsRemain = Math.round(secsRemain); /*Minutes*/ minLeft = ((count.getTime() - today.getTime()) / hoursPerDay); minRound = Math.round(minLeft); minRemain = minLeft - minRound; minRemain = (minRemain < 0) ? minRemain = 60 - ((minRound - minLeft) * 60) : minRemain = ((minLeft - minRound) * 60); minRemain = Math.round(minRemain - 0.495); /*Hours*/ hoursLeft = ((count.getTime() - today.getTime()) / PerDay); hoursRound = Math.round(hoursLeft); hoursRemain = hoursLeft - hoursRound; hoursRemain = (hoursRemain < 0) ? hoursRemain = 24 - ((hoursRound - hoursLeft) * 24) : hoursRemain = ((hoursLeft - hoursRound) * 24); hoursRemain = Math.round(hoursRemain - 0.5); /*Days*/ daysLeft = ((count.getTime() - today.getTime()) / PerDay); daysLeft = (daysLeft); daysRound = Math.round(daysLeft); daysRemain = daysRound; /*Fixes*/ if (daysRemain == 1) daysRemain = daysRemain + " day, "; else daysRemain = daysRemain + " days, "; if (hoursRemain == 1) hoursRemain = hoursRemain + " hour, "; else hoursRemain = hoursRemain + " hours, "; if (minRemain == 1) minRemain = minRemain + " minute, "; else minRemain = minRemain + " minutes, "; if (secsRemain == 1) secsRemain = secsRemain + " second"; else secsRemain = secsRemain + " seconds"; /*Time*/ timeRemain = daysRemain + hoursRemain + minRemain + secsRemain; window.status = ""; document.clock.face.value = timeRemain; timerID = setTimeout("showtime()",1000); timerRunning = true; if (Expire <= 0){ document.clock.face.value = time; // choose either "time" or "timeUp" (without quotes) stopclock() } } // De-activate Cloaking --> // --> </SCRIPT>

HTML Script:
<table width=420> <tr> <td align=center> <FORM NAME="clock"><INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE="41" NAME="face"></FORM> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- //document.write('<FORM NAME="clock"><INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE="41" NAME="face"></FORM>'); startclock() // --> </SCRIPT> <h3>In this case the countdown is to December 5, 2007.</h3> </td> </tr> </table>

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