Countdown Timer for a specific date

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I need a countdown timer to show the countdown time ending on:

January 1, 2026

How do I do this...I have looked at tutorials online and youtube but I can't seem to get them to work.. Thanks for any help!

Jason

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RogierE 875 Moderator on at

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Have you tried using a text label with this formula as text ?
Hours(Now()-Date(2026, 1, 1))
this would give you the hours of the time difference. And you could create a minutes and days difference with the same kind of formula, but the. Replacing ‘Hours’ by ‘Minutes’ or ‘Days’

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Oh, and maybe one more suggestion, if you want to have a dynamic count down timer like this:
You could use the Timer control and change it to your needs in these 3 steps:
You would want to have the duration of the timer to be the number of milliseconds between now and your set date. You could do that by entering the following formula in the Duration property of your Timer:
DateDiff(Now(),Date(2026,1,1),TimeUnit.Seconds)*1000

2. You would want to let the timer start automatically by switching on setting the auto start property to 'true'
3. You would want to let the timer count down whereas it normally counts up, and you would want to show years, months and days next to the hours, minutes and seconds in a standard timer. You could do that by changing the Text property to:
Text(DateTime(0,0,0,0,0,(Self.Duration-Self.Value)/1000),"yy Y mm M dd D hh:mm:ss")
That's it I guess!

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illynoise 25 on at

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Thanks, I think that gets me a lot closer than where I was for sure. For some reason it always starts at a static start time and when I hit play its not different, so leads me to believe that it's referencing the wrong time?
when I start the timer, it always starts at 15:10:58

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illynoise 25 on at

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Ok I think I figured it out, it wasn't published. So with the customization of the Y M D, is there any way to actually make is say Year Month Day ? Or is that a limitation? Thanks!

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You’re almost there! Only the yy mm dd should be there for the formula to work, whatever you place in between, will be shown literally.
just replace the text with
Text(DateTime(0,0,0,0,0,(Self.Duration-Self.Value)/1000),"yy Year mm Month dd Day hh:mm:ss")
And you’re good to go.

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