Countdown Clock to Specific Date

[Guest_imported]

Hi, i'm extremely new to flash but I"m creating a website and I want to countdown to my birthday, or any other date for that matter. I have found some countdown clocks but the problem is that the design is soo ugly.


In my mind I picture big fluorescent pink letters, slightly embossed. Is there some way to create a countdown clock similar to that of like a basketball clock/shot clock for example


50.03 = 50min 03secs

so it would look similar to this but only in big fluorscent pink letters

360.50.20.59

which is hours.minutes.seconds.milliseconds

Thanks in advance!

 

[isNaN]

Yes it is possible but it is fairly involved.

It all revolves around an infinite loop (I used a looping 2 frame movie clip) and the Date object.

ex.:

today = new Date();

grabs the local time and date from the computer. You can then break it down with stuff like...

d = today.getDay();
h = today.getHours();
m = today.getMinutes();

etc.

If you are going to do it right, make sure you check for leap year.

I started a birthday countdown .swf a while ago but I left it in an uncompleted state. Maybe I'll dust that project off and get back to it at some point.

HTH,

jaxon