Hours to go? 1

[bluesauceuk]

Hello,

I am trying to get a countdown to a time in hours.

The time I want to countdown to is Fridays at 22:00 (10pm)

Is there a way I can count down to this town only displaying whole hours.. eg 36 hrs to go

Also, when it gets to 22:00 and until 03:00 (3am sat) I would like it to say... "on now!"

then after 3.00 am i would like it to count down again until 10pm the nect friday in hours?

I have no idead how to start this? dates really confuse me.

Thanks

Mark

 

[jalbao]

The following is probably not the most efficient way of doing what you need, but hopefully you can get some ideas from it to get you going.

btw: Test the heck out of it.. I haven't ran it yet, so I'm sure I've overlooked something - I agree.. dates can get really confusing.

<!---
Array that holds the amount of days to add to today.
The index represents the Cardinal day of the week; ie. 1=Sunday and 7=Saturday.
The value of the array (0-6) represents the difference of days from today and the coming up Friday;
Creating this array will save us from running condtional statements when creating the locCountDownDate variable --->
<cfset arrWeekArrange=ArrayNew(1)>
<cfset arrWeekArrange[7]=6>
<cfset arrWeekArrange[1]=5>
<cfset arrWeekArrange[2]=4>
<cfset arrWeekArrange[3]=3>
<cfset arrWeekArrange[4]=2>
<cfset arrWeekArrange[5]=1>
<cfset arrWeekArrange[6]=0>

<!--- Create a timestamp for the coming up Friday --->
<cfset locCountDownDate=DateAdd(&quot;d&quot;,arrWeekArrange[DayOfWeek(now())],now())>
<cfset locCountDownDate=CreateDateTime(Year(locCountDownDate),month(locCountDownDate),day(locCountDownDate),&quot;22&quot;,&quot;00&quot;,&quot;00&quot>

<!--- Calculate the hour difference between now and Friday 22:00 --->
<cfset locHoursToGo=DateDiff(&quot;h&quot;,now(),locCountDownDate)>


<cfoutput>
<!--- If 'now' is Friday or Saturday between the hours of 22:00 and 3, display 'ON NOW' --->
<cfif (DayOfWeek(now()) IS (6 OR 7) AND Hour(now()) GTE 22) AND (DayOfWeek(now()) IS (6 OR 7) AND Hour(now()) LTE 3)>
On now
<cfelse>
#locHoursToGo# hours to go
</cfif>
</cfoutput>