Calculating how many days are left to a future date is very simple (both in AS2 and AS3).
This is how you can calculate how many days are left for new year:
Actionscript:
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var today:Date = new Date(); // now
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var target:Date = new Date(2011, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); // Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT+0000 2011
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// number of milliseconds between the two dates
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var milliseconds:Number = target.getTime() - today.getTime();
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// make sure it's in the future
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if (milliseconds> 0)
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{
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var seconds:Number = milliseconds / 1000;
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var minutes:Number = seconds / 60;
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var hours:Number = minutes / 60;
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var days:Number = Math.floor(hours / 24);
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trace("days left: " + days);
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if (days == 0)
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trace("it's today!!");
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}
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else
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{
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trace("not in the future");
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}
