On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:07:30PM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
> I need to put a countdown to a specific date on a web page. Can anyone
> tell me the best way to do this? Is there something I have missed in HTML
> itself that will do this? Do I need JavaScript or Perl or ANOther? Any
> help will be much appreciated as I need to do this in a relatively short
> time-frame (the next three days?!!)...
If you want the countdown to continually update after the page has loaded,
then you need Java[script]. If, however, you simply want to put a static
value into the page, then a bit o' perl like this should suffice (untested):
$futuretime=1e9; # the epoch time of your future event
$timediff=$futuretime-time;
exit if($timediff<1); # don't want to have embarrassing negative numbers ...
$days=int($timediff/86400); $timediff%=86400 # 86400 seconds in a day
$hours=int($timediff/3600); $timediff%=3600 # 3600 seconds in an hour
$mins=int($timediff/60); $timediff%=60 # 60 seconds in a minute
$secs=$timediff;
print "$days Days, $hours Hours, $mins Minutes and $secs Seconds remain.";
Prettifying, and getting the correct singulars/plurals in there is left as
an exercise for the reader. Months are a little tricky so I haven't
bothered :-)
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