Re: Count down

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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Peter Beckman wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Frank McIsaac wrote:
>
> >         Hi all.  I was wanting to make a page that takes a set date and
> > counts down to zero displaying days, minutes, and seconds.  Basically, I
> > want it to count down from the current date and time until a future date
> > and time is reached (ie.  Sept. 30th is x days, y minutes, and z seconds
> > away from right now).  Is this possible?  If so, how.  Thanks for the
> > help.
>
>  $futuretime = strtotime("9/30/2003 12:00:00");
>
>  $difftime = $futuretime - time();
>
>  $days = (int)($difftime/86400);
>  $leftover = $difftime%86400;
>  $minutes = (int)($leftover/1440);
>  $leftover = $leftover%1440;

 Whoops.  Change 1440 to 60 in the above two lines.

>  $seconds = $leftover;
>
>  printf("Future Time is %d day%s, %d minute%s, and %d second%s away from
>  now.", $days, $days==1?"":"s",
>         $minutes, $minutes==1?"":"s",
>         $seconds, $seconds==1?"":"s");

Beckman
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Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
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