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Re: javascript ate my cereal!

Quote:
Originally Posted by steveg
I'm trying to code a simple countdown timer for a friend, but the code as it is now will run once, then return NaNs for the numbers. Eventually it will start working under safari, but not under IE or Mozilla. Any suggestions?
try this (sorry I had to add spaces to this so I could actually read it):

Code:
<html>
<body>
<FORM name=count>
 <INPUT size=73 name=count2>
</FORM>
</body>
</html>
<SCRIPT language="javascript">
//Count down until any date and time
var until = 'Party';
var current = 'A Title of some sort to display when time is up';
var montharray =
new Array('Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec');
var theyear;
var themonth;
var theday;
var thehr;
var themin;
var thesec;
function countstart(yr, mth, day, hour, min, sec) {
  theyear  = yr;
  themonth = mth;
  theday   = day;
  thehr	= hour;
  themin   = min;
  thesec   = sec;
  setTimeout('countdown()', 1000);
}
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[themonth-1]
	+ ' '  + theday
	+ ', ' + theyear
	+ ' '  + thehr
	+ ':'  + themin
	+ ':'  + thesec;
  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 (dday  == 0 &&
	  dhour == 0 &&
	  dmin  == 0 &&
	  dsec  == 0) {
	document.forms.count.count2.value = current;
	return;
  } else {
	document.forms.count.count2.value=
	  'Only ' 
	  + dday  + ' days, '
	  + dhour + ' hours, '
	  + dmin  + ' minutes, and '
	  + dsec  + ' seconds left until '
	  + until;   
  }
  setTimeout('countdown()', 1000);
}
//enter the count down date using the format year/month/day/hour/minute/seconds
countstart(2004,3,29,1,0,0);
</SCRIPT>