Exam countdown timer

[Theldron]

Hi all,

 

The school want me to place a countdown timer to the Year 11 exams, excluding weekends and holidays, I think its 98 days now. Short of changing the number myself everyday, what would be the easiest way to do it automatically?

 

Sorry if I am being simple.

 

Cheers

[Shadow_Walker]

I used something like this https://www.timeanddate.com/clocks/freecountdown.html

 

Depends on where it is going, is it on a website or digital signage?

[Theldron]

Digital signage. We use Xibo. Thanks shadow, but I have looked at those sites but they wont let just put in the number of days, It only lets me countdown to a specific date.. Edited November 24, 2017 by Theldron

[Shadow_Walker]

Digital signage. We use Xibo. Thanks shadow, but I have looked at those sites but they wont let just put in the number of days, It only lets me countdown to a specific date..

 

I would look for a html countdown timer and then embed it as an iframe if possible.

[jthompson]

Another possibility is to have Xibo read the number of days from a text file. You could then have that text file overwritten each day by a script run using a Windows Scheduled Task, set to run at midnight each weekday. The script would read in the current value and replace it with one less.

 

A simpler script to have to write, if you can't find anything online that you can pinch.

[6Foot2]

I would look for a html countdown timer and then embed it as an iframe if possible.

Will this one do:

 

Link: Free Countdown Timer

 

...To use the service you must be able to add HTML directly to your web page and IFRAME tags must be allowed...

[Fazza]

As long as the countdown timer you choose doesnt show the date and just the number of days all you should need to do is select whatever the date will be in 98 days and that would give you what you're after I think.