Recently I started leading a
Challenge in the Meta Section and wondered if it is even possible to include a gif that counts down to a certain date. I started searching in Google and found a solution that allows to set the Timer/Counter in only 5 minutes (up to 999 days in advance).
You only have to visit this website:
https://seanja.com/secret/countdown/gif.php?time=2020-01-22-0:00and after "time=" set the time up to which the countdown should begin. Then copy the path and paste it into [img.]http://[/img.].
and then you get this nice Timer/Counter:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fseanja.com%2Fsecret%2Fcountdown%2Fgif.php%3Ftime%3D2020-01-22-0%3A00&t=665&c=Yhy-QpZSXDsi9A)
As an example we see here a countdown for New Years Eve
![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
As you can see, the second hand goes slightly beyond the outline of the gif for more than 100 days. But for <100 days it works perfectly.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fseanja.com%2Fsecret%2Fcountdown%2Fgif.php%3Ftime%3D2020-12-31-23%3A59&t=665&c=8Ufy6SW4pViaCg)
Here is a little trick to change the size of the image thrown into the BTT:
[img width=200 height=80 alt=image loading...]https://seanja.com/secret/countdown/gif.php?time=2020-12-31-23:59[/img]
![image loading...](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fseanja.com%2Fsecret%2Fcountdown%2Fgif.php%3Ftime%3D2020-12-31-23%3A59&t=665&c=8Ufy6SW4pViaCg)
If we specify only one unit of measurement (e.g. width), the image will be scaled to the specified height while retaining its shape (often used when you want to resize the image quickly but don't know the dimensions and want to avoid flattening it)
It works in such a way that every time you visit the website (Forum Refreshing), a 1 minute looping gif is generated that updates every second and imitates a real clock. After one minute, however, it will show a wrong time. To see the correct time, you need to refresh the page (then a new gif is generated with the same path as the link from the forum)