# RE: Flash countdown

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/re-flash-countdown/276401>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 26, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/re-flash-countdown/276401 "2008-11-26T19:25:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![g27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dec6dc/32.png) [@g27](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/g27)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/re-flash-countdown/276401/1 "2008-11-26T19:25:48Z")

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Hey everyone,

I am creating a countdown but don’t know how to pointpoint it to a certain time, just the day. So I am aiming for 19.00 GMT on Christmas Day, but can only aim the code at midn ight on Christmas Day.

Can anyone offer any advice, tips or the code?

Thanks in advance

George

Here is the code that I’m using which I got from Kirupa and the countdown works fine!!!

currentDate = new Date();  
thisYear = currentDate.getFullYear();  
eventDate = new Date(thisYear, 11, 25);  
eventMillisecs = eventDate.getTime();  
counter.onEnterFrame = function(){  
currentDate = new Date();  
currentMillisecs = currentDate.getTime();  
this.msecs = eventMillisecs - currentMillisecs;  
if (this.msecs \<= 0){   
play();  
return;  
}  
this.secs = Math.floor(this.msecs/1000); // 1000 milliseconds make a second  
this.mins = Math.floor(this.secs/60); // 60 seconds make a minute  
this.hours = Math.floor(this.mins/60); // 60 minutes make a hour  
this.days = Math.floor(this.hours/24); // 24 hours make a second  
this.msecs = string(this.msecs % 1000);  
this.secs = string(this.secs % 60);  
this.mins = string(this.mins % 60);  
this.hours = string(this.hours % 24);  
this.days = string(this.days);

while (this.msecs.length \< 3) this.msecs = “0” + this.msecs;  
if (this.secs.length \< 2) this.secs = “0” + this.secs;  
if (this.mins.length \< 2) this.mins = “0” + this.mins;  
if (this.hours.length \< 2) this.hours = “0” + this.hours;  
while (this.days.length \< 3) this.days = “0” + this.days;  
for(movie in this){  
if (this[movie].\_parent == this) this[movie].evaluateFrameFrom(this);  
}  
};

MovieClip.prototype.evaluateFrameFrom = function(variableClip){

```
var nameArray = this._name.split("_");
var numberSet = variableClip[nameArray[0]];
var character = number(nameArray[1]);	
var frame = 1 + number(numberSet.charAt(character));

if (this._currentframe != frame) this.gotoAndStop(frame);

```

};