In need of a countdown (ticker)

Saturday 11 March 2006 2:22:54 pm

Use the currentdate and datetime functions.

<b>currentdate()</b> will give you the current date, and <b>datetime</b> can be used to convert the timestamp into formats much like PHP.

For example:

{currentdate()|datetime('custom','%U')}

Be aware of timezones and date math (seconds, minutes, days, etc).

Monday 13 March 2006 3:48:32 am

I need something like {mktime(0, 0, 0, 04, 09, 2006)}

Tuesday 14 March 2006 3:12:58 am

This is what I ended up with:
Its all good. ;-)

{let 
	year=currentdate()|datetime('custom','%Y')
	month=currentdate()|datetime('custom','%m')
	day=currentdate()|datetime('custom','%d')
}

{maketime( 00 ,01 ,00 ,04 , 09, 2006)|datetime('custom','%U')|sub(maketime( 00 ,01 ,00 ,$month , $day ,$year)|datetime('custom','%U'))|div(60)|div(60)|div(24)|round}