Countdown Clock

[BigEastBeasts]

gousfbulls.com has a countdown to kick-off clock. For some odd reason it appears to be counting down to September 1st at 8:35pm.

[CoolBull1]

It's a little conspiracy and trickeration by the HOT.  They are more interested in the countdown to the halftime show....I look forward to that also HOT.  No offense, but I look forward to kickoff just a little more!

[Guest]

Actually, that's not quite correct.

The source code for the countdown is counting down to "7:30pm EST" ... since we are in EDT, that adds an hour to make it 8:30pm in the calculations.  Not sure why they put 7:30pm.

Here is the actual code:

<SCRIPT>
var eventdate = new Date("September 1, 2007 19:30:00 EST");
  setTimeout("countdown()",500);
 function toSt(n)
 {s=""
  if(n<10) s+="0"
  return s+n.toString();
 } 
 function countdown()
 {cl=document.clock;
  d=new Date();
  count=Math.floor((eventdate.getTime()-d.getTime())/1000);
  if(count<=0)
    {cl.days.value="";
     cl.hours.value="";
     cl.mins.value="";
     cl.secs.value="";
     return;
    }
  document.getElementById("secs").innerHTML=toSt(count%60);
  count=Math.floor(count/60);
  document.getElementById("mins").innerHTML=toSt(count%60);
  count=Math.floor(count/60);
  document.getElementById("hours").innerHTML=toSt(count%24);
  count=Math.floor(count/24);
  document.getElementById("days").innerHTML=count; 
  setTimeout("countdown()",500);
 }
</SCRIPT>

[BigEastBeasts]

Thanks for the clarification Jim. Guess we'll just have to wait and see when they release the official time.

[crambone]

Maybe the web designers are UCiF grads...