# Countdown timer, please help!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-please-help/157459
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 2, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-please-help/157459 "2005-08-02T04:54:10Z")
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### Author: ![Doug89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Doug89](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Doug89)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/countdown-timer-please-help/157459/1 "2005-08-02T04:54:10Z")

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Ok, heres my situation, im trying to make a countdown timer until a certain date (feb, 6, 06). how do i go about doing it? I want it to be have Days:Hours:Minutes:seconds and it needs to be constantly going. I could easily make one that would work perfectly if it started running tonight and i never turned off my computer or exited the program, i feel the problem is trying to sync the current time with the number of hours remaining. Thanks!

EDIT: I have Flash 5 btw