How can I change the Number (Increase) automatically daily at 12:00 am?

Question

Hi,
Can someone help me out to sove this problem, please? I have a text box movie clip called Text_mc.
The Text_mc contains the number "1".
I need this number to be updated daily at 12:00am by adding "1" to the existing number.
Actually it is like a counter, but it counts days from the number given in Text_mc.
Daily it adds a number to the existing number at 12:00am.
What is the code for this counter, please.
Thanks.

Answer 1

If the file will be opened and closed, then you need some other means to determine how many days, which can be easily done as shown below.  The alternative would be to store the value in a database, but in neither case could you change the value from the swf file at a specific time.
You can use the Date class to assign a specific starting date/time to mark the kick off point, and then use it again to determine the current time and then determine how many days have passed between those two times.
// set start day/time as November 1, 2010, 0 hour.
var startDate:Date = new Date(2010,10,1,0,0,0,0);
var startTime = startDate.getTime();
// establish current date/time
var today:Date = new Date();
var todayTime = today.getTime();
// calculate time difference and convert into days (from msecs)
var fullDaysElapsed = Math.floor((todayTime - startTime)/(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
trace(fullDaysElapsed);