RE: Date Countdown Script?

[Scott Diedrick <swd@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>]

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> Subject:       RE: Date Countdown Script?
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> From: Lourdes Yero <lyero@conicit.ve>
> Subject: Re: Date Countdown Script?
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> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> Two versions:
> 
> 1)                        End of millennium is 31 December 1999
> 
> The statement
> 
>   Date.parse(new Date(99, 11, 31, 23, 59, 59)) - Date.parse(new Date())
> 
> gives the number of milliseconds from now until end of millennium 
> 
> 2)                        End of millennium is 31 December 2000
> 
> 
> The statements
> 
>   leap_year_in_milli = 31622400000;  //2000 is a leap year
>   Date.parse(new Date(99, 11, 31, 23, 59, 59)) - Date.parse(new Date()) +
> leap_year_in_milli
> 
> gives the number of milliseconds from now until end of millennium 
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:30 5/02/96 -5000, you wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >	I'm relatively new to both Javascript and this this. I am putting 
> >together a page for our organization relating the year 2000 
> >millenium issues. I'd like to add a counter to display the number of 
> >years, months, days and weeks until January 1, 2000. Javascript seems 
> >like a good choice for this, avoiding cgi. Before I go ahead and 
> >"reinvent the wheel", is there a similar date manipulation script I 
> >might use as a starting place? Thanks in advance.
> >
> 
> --
> Lourdes Yero
> E-mail: lyero@dino.conicit.ve
> 
> 
The end of the millennium is December 31, 2000.  
                     Scott Diedrick