How do I modify this script so I can change the time also?

November 4, 2008 5:56 PM

How can I modify this countdown script to be able to set the time, not just the date?

I want to set the countdown timer to a date (not Christmas) this year. (I already noticed that when I generate the script, it sets to 2007 instead of 2008, so I have to manually fix it.) I'd like to be able to set the time to countdown to 1900 hours (7pm) - and that's CST if this is not dependent on the user's computer clock. (How do I tell if it's dependent on the user's clock?)

I know there are plenty of other copy-paste countdown timers out there, but I really prefer the appearance of this one over the others I've found.

posted by IndigoRain to computers & internet (4 comments total)

The countdown timer feeds some parameters to a shockwave file hosted on the oneplusyou.com site. Unless that shockwave file has some hooks to accept time input, it's not going to work.
posted by pmbuko at 6:23 PM on November 4, 2008

Oh. Any suggestions on a really nice looking one like that one?
posted by IndigoRain at 11:39 PM on November 4, 2008

The look of that would be really easy to replicate in javascript, modifying one of the many countdown scripts out there. Do you know javascript by any chance? If not I could probably mock up something for you.

Never noticed another hoosier on here =]
posted by Kupo? at 9:02 AM on November 5, 2008

Thank you very much Kupo?! :) I'll reply to your PM.
posted by IndigoRain at 8:00 PM on November 5, 2008