countdown timer

Say you want to count down till new year 2006.....

Make a text field and give it variable name "timeRemaining"
Place it in movie clip and paste the following action to this clip.
right click on clip - Actions :


onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
now = new Date();
NEW_YEAR = new Date(2006, 0, 0, 23, 59, 59);
days = (NEW_YEAR-now)/1000/60/60/24;
daysRound = Math.floor(days);
hours = (NEW_YEAR-now)/1000/60/60-(24*daysRound);
hoursRound = Math.floor(hours);
minutes = (NEW_YEAR-now)/1000/60-(24*60*daysRound)-(60*hoursRound);
minutesRound = Math.floor(minutes);
seconds = (NEW_YEAR-now)/1000-(24*60*60*daysRound)-(60*60*hoursRound)-­(60*minutesRound);
secondsRound = Math.round(seconds);
if (secondsRound == 1) {sec = " second ";} else {sec = " seconds ";


}


if (minutesRound == 1) {min = " minute ";} else {min = " minutes ";

}


if (hoursRound == 1) {hr = " hour ";} else {hr = " hours ";

}


if (daysRound == 1) {dy = " day ";} else {dy = " days ";

}


timeRemaining = daysRound+dy+hoursRound+hr+minutesRound+min+secondsRound+sec­;


}