# Countdown timer modification

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-modification/220362
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 25, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-modification/220362 "2007-03-25T17:08:52Z")
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### Author: ![paulo500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@paulo500](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paulo500)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-modification/220362/1 "2007-03-25T17:08:52Z")

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Hi Flashers!  
I am totally new here to the Flash world and my very first project (beside the free Flash tutorial to animate a blue ball across the screen), was to create a countdown timer. So I found the perfect one here. [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/countdown.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/../developer/mx/countdown.htm) .  
Now luckily it came with the source code because when I first copy/pasted each of the codes to my counter in Flash, I got a whole whack of errors! I have no idea what went wrong as I did everything senocular wrote down! :crying:  
For me, the best way to learn programing is to find a program that is working perfectly and just ‘dissect’ it line by line and just go from there. I may be jumping the gun by learning from a more complicated coded (such as this counter), but on the other hand, it could be a good start.

Anyway my two questions are:

1. [which is probably an embarrassingly simple one], how do I drop the “milliseconds” and the “days” off the timer without having the coding scream at me? I would just like to try and create a time with only the days/hours/seconds.

2. Is there a way to program the counter to count down to a particular time in the future, not just just the day? For instances, I would like the counter to count down to when Christmas dinner is…not just when Christmas day arrives. (So i’d want the timer to look the same, but obviously have a few more hours added onto the countdown which would mean when dinner is to be served that day.)(-:

Anyway, thanks again for this useful site and I hope to learn a lot from you folks!

Paul J