How do I count down to a date?

I’m trying to create a counter that will countdown to a date and time.

I seemed to be getting lost with my coding.
I’ve got some simple code that counts down.
But, I’m having trouble trying to figure out how I can have a counter count down to a specific date.

(ALSO… if the date has passed… a different message should be displayed.)

Ideally, I’d like to do this in Flash 5 code to guarantee that the end user will probably have the Flash plugin.

How do I do this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

OM