Flash Countdown Clock in Specific Time Zone?

I am looking for a tutorial to make a countdown clock in
Flash, with days, hours, minutes and seconds.
Here's the tricky part: the countdown clock will be seen from
multiple time zones.
I have seen a couple of coutdown clock tutorials that assume
that the time is based on the time from the user's computer clock.
The event starts at 8 pm Central Time, but to users in Eastern
Time, it will look like the event starts at 8 pm Eastern Time.
What to do, what to do...

You can use TIME ZONE statement for this.
DATA: time_stamp_s TYPE string,
            time_stamp     TYPE timestamp,
            tzone              TYPE timezone,
           wf_date_conv TYPE sy-datum,
           wf_time_conv TYPE sy-uzeit.
tzone = 'CET'.
CONCATENATE sy-datlo   "Local Date
                          sy-timlo    "Local Time
                  INTO time_stamp_s.
time_stamp = time_stamp_s.
CONVERT TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tzone INTO DATE wf_date_conv TIME wf_time_conv.
Otherwise FM IB_CONVERT_INTO_TIMESTAMP/IB_CONVERT_FROM_TIMESTAMP can bne used for same.
Edited by: Satyajit on Apr 13, 2010 1:31 PM

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"Pitchsole" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Hey all, i have come to this fourm a few times and every
time i posted
> help i
> got it and i got the right help to. So here i am back
again. Now here my
> problem. i made this count down for a certain event.
(yes i got help from
> someone) and it works fine i made all the images it
works great,,,so i
> though
> then i thought id experament. So i changed my computers
time zone and
> guess
> what. The Time changed on the count down. Can i make my
count down'er',
> count
> down from a specific time zone so it will count down and
be the same for
> everyone? so no matter what time zone you have it will
ONLY be for a
> certain
> type of time zone? Heres my Count down so far;
>
>
http://snro.ifastnet.com/wipe.html
>
> And heres the script i have for my count down. Can
someone give me a
> better
> code, so it will keep my counter the exact same just
make it count down
> from
> only 1 specific Time zone? (AS below)
>
>
quote:
stop();
>
> currentDate = new Date();
> thisYear = currentDate.getFullYear();
>
> // Date( year, month-1, date [, hour [, minute [, second
> millisecond]]]])
> eventDate = new Date(thisYear, 9, 28, 12);
> eventMillisecs = eventDate.getTime();
>
> counter.onEnterFrame = function(){
> currentDate = new Date();
> currentMillisecs = currentDate.getTime();
> this.msecs = eventMillisecs - currentMillisecs;
> if (this.msecs <= 0){
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> return;
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> this.hours = Math.floor(this.mins/60);
> this.days = Math.floor(this.hours/24);
> this.msecs = string(this.msecs % 1000);
> this.secs = string(this.secs % 60);
> this.mins = string(this.mins % 60);
> this.hours = string(this.hours % 24);
> this.days = string(this.days);
>
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> if (this.secs.length < 2) this.secs = "0" +
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> if (this.mins.length < 2) this.mins = "0" +
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> if (this.hours.length < 2) this.hours = "0" +
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> while (this.days.length < 3) this.days = "0" +
this.days;
>
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> if (this[movie]._parent == this)
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> }
> };
>
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function(variableClip){
> var nameArray = this._name.split("_");
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> var character = number(nameArray[1]);
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> if (this._currentframe != frame)
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>
> Thanks!
>
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