Title: countdown
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# countdown

 *  [jaxxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaxxx/)
 * (@jaxxx)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/)
 * be nice if there was a “xxx days until …” thing somewhere. For now i can make
   do with some php code, but i think it would be a nice (if somewhat insignificant)
   feature.

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 *  [gfmorris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gfmorris/)
 * (@gfmorris)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/#post-25713)
 * Why put such a feature in WP? There’s a lot of scripts out there that do things
   like this already; I’d suggest finding one and importing it into your site through
   your templates.
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/#post-25715)
 * Could you guys give me some code or direct me to some scripts for this? That 
   would be a fun feature to add interest and unique character to my blog.
    Next
   Linux Kernel will be released in … days. 🙂 How fun.
 *  [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/)
 * (@southerngal)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/#post-25724)
 * I went to hot scripts and got a countdown and a countup script. They are out 
   there, just look! 🙂
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/#post-25735)
 * That’s one of the big reasons I went with WP over b2evo. b2evo is so bloated 
   with not needed (IMO) features.
 *  [gfmorris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gfmorris/)
 * (@gfmorris)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/#post-25751)
 * [http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=Perl+countdown+scripts](http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=Perl+countdown+scripts)
   
   I’d just go with that, frankly. Perl will work just fine for this. I *guess* 
   you could hack up something similar in PHP and put some of the data in a MySQL
   database, but to me that feels a bit like having a tank cannon when you just 
   needed a slingshot. 🙂
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/#post-25762)
 * Thanks folks. I agree that adding this to WP would be bloating a good program.
   Adding ones own scripts obviously is easy enough and something like this should
   be a cinch. Thanks!
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/countdown/#post-25764)
 * this is what i used:
    <? print (“There are ” . (int)((mktime (0,0,0,[dd],[mm],[
   yyyy]) – time(void))/86400) . ” days until [myEvent]”); ?> I only suggested it,
   because it would be nice to tie it directly into the calendar on WP.

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