Ellie's Count Down

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Describe Ellie's Count Down

For a selected event, ECountDn displays the remaining time from now as weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds.

Using ECountDn

Select an event. Special events:

Use 'New': use the date value in the New Date field (probably best to select a date, then edit)
End of World?: a random date/time in next 10 years

The event date appears in "New Date".

The remaining time updates every second.

Stop Clock can be used to stop the updating; use Start Clock to start updating again.

Versions

I wrote ECountDn for my daughter Ellie so she could know exactly how long it was until her birthday, or Christmas, or whenever.

This version of Ellie's Count Down requires a browser with JavaScript support, (or NewtonScript support, i.e., Newt's Cape on 2.x Newton with i:General:NewtonScript:Compile preference); besides Newt's Cape, it has been tested with

Macintosh OS X: Safari 2.0; Firefox 1.0.4; Internet Explorer 5.2.3;
Macintosh OS 9: Netscape 4.7, 4.5, 4.0.8, 3.0.4 [not: 2.0]; Internet Explorer 5.0, 4.5;
Windows: Internet Explorer 6.0, 5.0, 4.0, 3.0; Firefox 1.0.4; Netscape 7.2, 6.0, 4.0.8, 3.0; AOL 9.0, 7.0, 4.0;

Let me know about your experience with other browsers.

Last updated: 21 Jun 2005: updated syntax via JSLint and tested with newer browsers

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Distribution

This version is free, and can be downloaded locally and mirrored in its entirety. If you copy/modify/improve the code, I would appreciate an acknowledgment of this version and link to this page.


Event:
New Date:
Now:
Remaining: