Simple countdown timer

[balala]

You will find it difficult to create a countdown that uses years and / or months. The largest time value that is consistent enough to be accurate is going to be weeks. There are always a fixed number of seconds in a week, day, hour, and minute, but not in a month, year, decade, century etc.

Right. I also got stuck once in this problem in the past and wasn't able to find a good solution. Hard to be implemented, I think even with Lua.

[jsmorley]

If I was going to do this in Lua entirely, and I likely would, it would be something like:

Skin:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1

[Variables]
Target=9/27/2017 11:32:10

[MeasureLua]
Measure=Script
ScriptFile=#CURRENTPATH#Countdown.lua

[MeterCountdown]
Meter=String
FontSize=13
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1

Countdown.lua:

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function Update()

	targetString = SKIN:GetVariable('Target')
	
	timeTarget = TimeStamp(targetString)
	timeNow = os.time(os.date('*t'))
	
	countDown = os.difftime(timeTarget, timeNow)
	if countDown < 0 then countDown = 0 end
	weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds = FormatSeconds(countDown)	
	
	if weeks == 1 then weekText = "week" else weekText="weeks" end
	if days == 1 then dayText = "day" else dayText="days" end
	if hours == 1 then hourText = "hour" else hourText="hours" end
	if minutes == 1 then minuteText = "minute" else minuteText="minutes" end
	if seconds == 1 then secondText = "second" else secondText="seconds" end
	
	if countDown < 60 then
		countdownDisplay = seconds..secondText
	end
	if countDown >= 60 then
		countdownDisplay = minutes..' '..minuteText..' '..seconds..' '..secondText
	end
	if countDown >= 3600 then
		countdownDisplay = hours..' '..hourText..' '..minutes..' '..minuteText..' '..seconds..' '..secondText	
	end
	if countDown >= 86400 then
		countdownDisplay = days..' '..dayText..' '..hours..' '..hourText..' '..minutes..' '..minuteText..' '..seconds..' '..secondText	
	end
	if countDown >= 604800 then
		countdownDisplay = weeks..' '..weekText..' '..days..' '..dayText..' '..hours..' '..hourText..' '..minutes..' '..minuteText..' '..seconds..' '..secondText	
	end

	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'MeterCountdown', 'Text', countdownDisplay)
	
end

function TimeStamp(targetString)
   
   -- date format: 7/26/2017 8:32:10

   month, day, year, hour, min, sec =
   string.match(targetString, "(%d+)/(%d+)/(%d+) (%d+):(%d+):(%d+)")

   timeStamp = os.time({year=year, month=month, day=day, hour=hour, min=min, sec=sec, isdst=false})
   
   return timeStamp

end

function FormatSeconds(secondsArg)

	weeks = math.floor(secondsArg / 604800)
	remainder = secondsArg % 604800
	days = math.floor(remainder / 86400)
	remainder = remainder % 86400
	hours = math.floor(remainder / 3600)
	remainder = remainder % 3600
	minutes = math.floor(remainder / 60)
	seconds = remainder % 60
	
	return weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds
	
end

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[jsmorley]

Of course, once you have figured out the difference in weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, you can do all kinds of different things with that in your skin...

Skin:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1

[Variables]
Target=9/27/2017 11:32:10

[MeasureLua]
Measure=Script
ScriptFile=#CURRENTPATH#Countdown.lua

[MeasureWeeks]
Measure=Calc
[MeasureDays]
Measure=Calc
[MeasureHours]
Measure=Calc
[MeasureMinutes]
Measure=Calc
[MeasureSeconds]
Measure=Calc

[MeterBack]
Meter=Shape
Shape=Rectangle 0.75,0.75,478,98,12 | StrokeWidth 1.5 | Stroke Color 150,150,150,255 | Fill Color 0,0,0,255

[MeterWeeks]
Meter=Bitmap
MeasureName=MeasureWeeks
X=10
Y=10
BitmapImage=#@#Nixie\digits60.png
BitmapFrames=10
BitmapExtend=1
BitmapDigits=2

[MeterDays]
Meter=Bitmap
MeasureName=MeasureDays
X=15R
Y=0r
BitmapImage=#@#Nixie\digits60.png
BitmapFrames=10
BitmapExtend=1
BitmapDigits=2

[MeterHours]
Meter=Bitmap
MeasureName=MeasureHours
X=15R
Y=0r
BitmapImage=#@#Nixie\digits60.png
BitmapFrames=10
BitmapExtend=1
BitmapDigits=2

[MeterMinutes]
Meter=Bitmap
MeasureName=MeasureMinutes
X=15R
Y=0r
BitmapImage=#@#Nixie\digits60.png
BitmapFrames=10
BitmapExtend=1
BitmapDigits=2

[MeterSeconds]
Meter=Bitmap
MeasureName=MeasureSeconds
X=15R
Y=0r
BitmapImage=#@#Nixie\digits60.png
BitmapFrames=10
BitmapExtend=1
BitmapDigits=2

[MeterWeeksText]
Meter=String
X=27
Y=70
FontSize=9
FontColor=255,228,110,255
FontWeight=400
AntiAlias=1
Text=WEEKS

[MeterDaysText]
Meter=String
X=130
Y=70
FontSize=9
FontColor=255,228,110,255
FontWeight=400
AntiAlias=1
Text=DAYS

[MeterHoursText]
Meter=String
X=218
Y=70
FontSize=9
FontColor=255,228,110,255
FontWeight=400
AntiAlias=1
Text=HOURS

[MeterMinutesText]
Meter=String
X=308
Y=70
FontSize=9
FontColor=255,228,110,255
FontWeight=400
AntiAlias=1
Text=MINUTES

[MeterSecondsText]
Meter=String
X=399
Y=70
FontSize=9
FontColor=255,228,110,255
FontWeight=400
AntiAlias=1
Text=SECONDS

Countdown.lua:

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function Update()

	targetString = SKIN:GetVariable('Target')
	
	timeTarget = TimeStamp(targetString)
	timeNow = os.time(os.date('*t'))
	
	countDown = os.difftime(timeTarget, timeNow)
	if countDown < 0 then countDown = 0 end
	weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds = FormatSeconds(countDown)	
	
	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'MeasureWeeks', 'Formula', weeks)
	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'MeasureDays', 'Formula', days)
	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'MeasureHours', 'Formula', hours)
	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'MeasureMinutes', 'Formula', minutes)
	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', 'MeasureSeconds', 'Formula', seconds)

end

function TimeStamp(targetString)
   
   -- date format: 7/26/2017 8:32:10

   month, day, year, hour, min, sec =
   string.match(targetString, "(%d+)/(%d+)/(%d+) (%d+):(%d+):(%d+)")

   timeStamp = os.time({year=year, month=month, day=day, hour=hour, min=min, sec=sec, isdst=false})
   
   return timeStamp

end

function FormatSeconds(secondsArg)

	weeks = math.floor(secondsArg / 604800)
	remainder = secondsArg % 604800
	days = math.floor(remainder / 86400)
	remainder = remainder % 86400
	hours = math.floor(remainder / 3600)
	remainder = remainder % 3600
	minutes = math.floor(remainder / 60)
	seconds = remainder % 60
	
	return weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds
	
end

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Countdown_1.0.rmskin

[deXxterlab97]

You will find it difficult to create a countdown that uses years and / or months. The largest time increment that is consistent enough to be accurate is going to be weeks. There are always a fixed number of seconds in a week, day, hour, and minute, but not in a month, year, decade, century etc.

To use months or years you are back to just hideous amounts of calculation about "what" month it is, is it a leap year, and all that. That is less a "countdown" type of calculation, and more of a "calendar" calculation.

Yeah I see, how would your above code (Christmas countdown) works if doing just rainmeter. I don't feel like learning a new programming language just to create a single skin.

[jsmorley]

Yeah I see, how would your above code (Christmas countdown) works if doing just rainmeter. I don't feel like learning a new programming language just to create a single skin.

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=138245#p138245

[richjackman242]

MODERN GADGETS: How do you start the countdown timer - I've entered an event name and a time in the future. Doesn't seem to be counting down

[SilverAzide]

MODERN GADGETS: How do you start the countdown timer - I've entered an event name and a time in the future. Doesn't seem to be counting down

The timer starts counting down immediately after entering a valid date and time. There is nothing you need to do to start it. Is the date/time you entered in the proper format?

Clock.jpg

[jsmorley]

JsMorley question... how can i change if there is one week or one day or hour left change it from weeks to week ..hours tot hour days ect...

The approach is in the Lua here:

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=26472&p=181966#p138257

[richjackman242]

Ok, I've got the countdown working. The thing is, I couldn't edit it with the little wrench settings. I had to go in and edit the in. That's the only way my changes would save.

Not a big deal.

[sl23]