# Help with Date Countdown Timer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-date-countdown-timer/221412>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 4, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-date-countdown-timer/221412 "2007-04-04T03:47:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![h2opololea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ebca7d/32.png) [@h2opololea](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/h2opololea)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-date-countdown-timer/221412/1 "2007-04-04T03:47:08Z")

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I’m completely new to Flash and while it seems pretty awesome I’m pretty lost with the scripting.

I am trying to make a date countdown timer using the direction senocular posted. I got through the graphics part, but can’t get the scripting ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/countdown2.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/countdown2.htm)). I tried looking at the code in the downloadable flash, but I can’t make head or tails of it. I think I could get the date part down, but I can’t get the movie clip part set up.

Could someone help me out? I would really like to be able to do this!! It would help to have instructions that were for a noob - I think the instructions senocular wrote are for someone more familiar with Flash… How about just the straight code that made the example work? At least then I can make my names exactly the same and work out the bugs by eliminating the differences…

Please help! :kir: