How to make a Christmas Countdown app

Gamelover456Gamelover456 Member Posts: 378
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How can I Make a Christmas Countdown app in GameSalad?

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  • KevinCrossKevinCross London, UKMember Posts: 1,894
    edited October 2013
    Convert the current date and time to seconds (search Google for a formula, that's what I did). Convert the Christmas date and time to seconds using the same formula. Find the difference between the two and then convert the seconds to a time like x amount of days.

    There's not very much to it.

    EDIT: Just remembered that the formula I used to convert a date into a timestamp doesn't take into account different month lengths and things like leap years etc. so it wouldn't be useable for an accurate countdown app.
  • RThurmanRThurman Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 2,881
    Try this:
    http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/414285/#Comment_414285
  • KevinCrossKevinCross London, UKMember Posts: 1,894
    edited October 2013
    @RThurman Thanks for showing that it's possible to link to particular comments! That will be really handy in the future.

    I can see that we can get the comment ID from the Quote, Insightful, and Agree bar.
  • RThurmanRThurman Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 2,881
    @KevinCross -- to link to a comment, right click on the timestamp and choose "copy link location". Then paste it where you need to.

    You are right. It is very handy!
  • KevinCrossKevinCross London, UKMember Posts: 1,894
    edited October 2013
    @RThurman non moderators don't see a timestamp though. We have to piece together the URL, but it's not a problem now that I know what the URL looks like.

    EDIT: I take that back, I can see the time above the post which has a URL. Doh! Awesome.
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