# Flash timer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-timer/26182>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 20, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-timer/26182 "2003-07-20T18:35:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![zdesignstudios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9a28c/32.png) [@zdesignstudios](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zdesignstudios)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-timer/26182/1 "2003-07-20T18:35:33Z")

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Any one know the code to write up a backward couting timer in flash?

Example: 32 days and 12 hours left for the 27th of august?

Thanx,

Z

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-timer/26182/2 "2003-07-20T20:25:16Z")

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I was thinking about it and figured it’s just your event minus getDate(). Then I looked around for something and here it is:

[http://www.actionscript.org/actionscripts\_library/Date\_Object/](http://www.actionscript.org/actionscripts_library/Date_Object/)

Scroll down to where it says countdown timer