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Nice countdown timer!

Postby Monroe » Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:06 am

Thats cool Paul, I like it!

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Re: Nice countdown timer!

Postby pauldear » Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:00 pm

Cheers Monroe - no pressure!
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Re: Nice countdown timer!

Postby SANEAlex » Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:22 pm

I am getting slow in my old age it took me a while to figure out it was on the top page of http://www.n-prize.com mind you i think the milliseconds are faked i dont think my net connection has latency that good :twisted: and for Monroe on the other side of the pond there should be relativity errors ;) :twisted: but i do agree it looks good.
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Re: Nice countdown timer!

Postby ZiraldoAerospace » Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:30 am

I really like the timer, it looks really cool.
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Re: Nice countdown timer!

Postby wagster » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:59 pm

The milliseconds aren't exactly 'faked' - but neither are they accurate!

When the page loads, Flash reads your system time and location, figures out GMT from that, calculates the remaining time and starts the countdown timer, which freewheels from that point. Flash doesn't keep time as well as you might expect, so the ms will drift out a little if you leave the page open long enough.

On a Windows box, the system time is automatically updated from a central service so is fairly reliable, although obviously not accurate to 1ms.

A bigger concern is whether it is calculating GMT correctly in every country, as I can't test that from here. Not losing any sleep over it now though!
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