Describe Ellie's Count Down

For a selected date, ECountDn displays the remaining time from now as:

weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds
total weeks
total days
total hours
total minutes
total seconds

Use ECountDn

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Select a target event from the Event Name picker. The remaining time updates every second. Special events:

End of World=: a random date/time in next 10 years.
Thanksgiving=: next Thanksgiving (last Thurs in November)

New Events

To create a new event:

edit the Event Name
pick an Event Date
select Save
this is saved in the Preference entry (tag: ECountDn:Newt)

You can also Replace/Delete an event matching the current Name.

Sounds

To further enhance the experience, you can play a sound each hour and/or minute. Each sound picker lists all of the built-in and registered sounds. For additional sound packages, see www.tactile.com.

ECountDn Versions

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

ECountDn created with NewtDevEnv; it's 2.x-only. Help book created from this HTML document by Newt's Cape.

Version 1.0 (9 Mar 1998)

Distribute ECountDn

ECountDn is freeware, and may be distributed freely as long as all of the files are included and unmodified.