Countdown Clock v1.1  Aug 6, 1996
 Copyright (C) 1996 Michael Hartman <hartmms@eng.auburn.edu>

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

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 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 Based on CTC5 Countdown Clock 
 http://www.ncsc.dni.us/ctc5/java/Countdown.html
 by Tom Carlson (tcarlson@ncsc.dni.us).   

Description: 
	This counter will countdown to the specified time if it is 
 	in the future and countup if it is in thw past. It is just 
	like the countdown clock NASA uses.

Usage:
	You must provide a Year, Month, and Day to the targer date.
	You can optionally specify an hour (in 0-23 format), minute and 
	second as well, but they default to 0 if you don't. For those of
        you in the U.S.A, you can specify if the target time is during 
        daylight savings time: otherwise it defaults to regular time. 

        You can optionally specify the time zone the event will occur in.
        Example values are: Eastern=5 Central=6 Mountain=7 West=8.
      
        In addition to this, you can specify what the applet will display
  	at the bottom of your viewer and where it will point the 
	browser to go when the user clicks on the applet.
	(I use it to provide a link to the source file.)

 	There is also an option to specify a font to use. I have included only
 	one font, called lcdb0. You can create your own fonts, but make sure 
	they are the correct size.
 

 	colon image: 21 x 9 (in pixels)
 	all other images: 21 x 16 (in pixels)

Example: 
	The counter will count to Dec 13, 1996 at 1:00pm: 
  	My graduation date from college :)

	<applet code="countdown.class" width=203 height=21>
	<param name=text value="Click on me to view my source">
	<param name=font value="lcdb0">
	<param name=dest value="countdown.java">
	<param name=year value=96>
	<param name=month value=12>
	<param name=day value=13>
	<param name=hour value=13>
        <param name=timezone value=6>
	</applet>
	
You can also put the files in their own directory. If you do this, you must
change the first line of the applet tag to look like this:

<applet codebase="directory_name" code="countdown.class" width=203 height=21>


Drawbacks:
 	When the rollover occurs, the counter skips a second.
 	This problem seems to be a result of the way Java 
 	uses its multithreading capabilities. Please email
 	me if you can help fix this.  
 
	Since the Java setYear returns only the last 2 digits of the
 	year, I add 19 to the value. Obviously when the applet is
	run in the year 2000 and after, it will not work correctly.
 	The code will have to be altered and re-compiled then.

Updates:
 
     	Keep an eye out on http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hartmms/countdown.html
     	for any new versions and updates.