Countdown Timer

[KennethGorelick]

Could someone tell me what modules I should look at in the Python
Manual to create a countdown timer that counts the years, days, hours,
minutes, and seconds to a given day?  Thanks in advance!  I'm fairly
new to the language, so please put it in newbie terms.  I only know the
basics.

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Re: Countdown Timer

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take a look at the time module.

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Re: Countdown Timer

[KennethGorelick]

Thank you!

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Countdown timer for different timezones

[Dirk Hagemann]

Hi!

I'd like to implement a countdown timer on a webite. It should show the
months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until a given date and time.
So far it's not really difficult, but this website will be used from
different time zones, what will make a difference of 10 hours, if I use
the time-information from the client. The event will take place at one
fixed moment which is worldwide the same.

Does anyone know a way to solve this time-zone-problem?

Regards and thanks for your ideas
Dirk

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Re: Countdown timer for different timezones

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Hagemann
wrote:

> I'd like to implement a countdown timer on a webite. It should show the
> months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until a given date and time.
> So far it's not really difficult, but this website will be used from
> different time zones, what will make a difference of 10 hours, if I use
> the time-information from the client. The event will take place at one
> fixed moment which is worldwide the same.
> 
> Does anyone know a way to solve this time-zone-problem?

I don't think there's a reliable way to get the time zone information from
the viewer of the website with just HTTP.  So you need a JavaScript
solution I guess.  Send the end time as UTC time to the browser an use
JavaScript's `Date` object to display the countdown in local time.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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