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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