[Ryan Curry]

On my teams website we have a Jva Script Countdown timer that is very nice, we go it off of a free Java site.


<script language="JavaScript">

hour(0=midnight,23=11pm), minutes, seconds:
setcountdown(2003,01,04,0,0,00)
/setcountdown(year,month,day,hour,minutes,seconds)/


var occasion="Manchester Kickoff"
var message_on_occasion="Go FURY!"

var countdownwidth='520px'
var countdownheight='35px'
var countdownbgcolor='#cccccc'
var opentags='<font face="Georgia" size=2 color=#990033><b>'
var closetags='</b></font>'

var montharray=new Array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","A ug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec")
var crosscount=''

function start_countdown(){
if (document.layers)
document.countdownnsmain.visibility="show"
else if (document.all||document.getElementById)
crosscount=document.getElementById&&!document.all? document.getElementById("countdownie") : countdownie
countdown()
}

if (document.all||document.getElementById)
document.write('<span id="countdownie" style="width:'+countdownwidth+'; background-color:'+countdownbgcolor+'"></span>')

window.onload=start_countdown


function countdown(){
var today=new Date()
var todayy=today.getYear()
if (todayy < 1000)
todayy+=1900
var todaym=today.getMonth()
var todayd=today.getDate()
var todayh=today.getHours()
var todaymin=today.getMinutes()
var todaysec=today.getSeconds()
var todaystring=montharray[todaym]+" "+todayd+", "+todayy+" "+todayh+":"+todaymin+":"+todaysec
futurestring=montharray[mo-1]+" "+da+", "+yr+" "+hr+":"+min+":"+sec
dd=Date.parse(futurestring)-Date.parse(todaystring)
dday=Math.floor(dd/(60*60*1000*24)*1)
dhour=Math.floor((dd%(60*60*1000*24))/(60*60*1000)*1)
dmin=Math.floor(((dd%(60*60*1000*24))%(60*60*1000) )/(60*1000)*1)
dsec=Math.floor((((dd%(60*60*1000*24))%(60*60*1000 ))%(60*1000))/1000*1)
//if on day of occasion
if(dday<=0&&dhour<=0&&dmin<=0&&dsec<=1&&todayd==da ){
if (document.layers){
document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.d ocument.write(opentags+message_on_occasion+closeta gs)
document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.d ocument.close()
}
else if (document.all||document.getElementById)
crosscount.innerHTML=opentags+message_on_occasion+ closetags
return
}
//if passed day of occasion
else if (dday<=-1){
if (document.layers){
document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.d ocument.write(opentags+"Occasion already passed! "+closetags)
document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.d ocument.close()
}
else if (document.all||document.getElementById)
crosscount.innerHTML=opentags+"Occasion already passed! "+closetags
return
}
//else, if not yet
else{
if (document.layers){
document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.d ocument.write(opentags+dday+ " days, "+dhour+" hours, "+dmin+" minutes, and "+dsec+" seconds left until "+occasion+closetags)
document.countdownnsmain.document.countdownnssub.d ocument.close()
}
else if (document.all||document.getElementById)
crosscount.innerHTML=opentags+dday+ " days, "+dhour+" hours, "+dmin+" minutes, and "+dsec+" seconds left til "+occasion+closetags
}
setTimeout("countdown()",1000)
}
</script>



That will let you countdown to any event, just altering the first set of lines.

-Rc