var myCountdown=new Array();
var repeat=false;
var mycountdown=new Countdown();
with (mycountdown){
 tagID="countdown";
 setEventDate(2005,4,8,17,0,0);
 event="I-Con 24!";
 onevent="See you at the con!";
 afterevent="See you at the con!";
}
myCountdown[myCountdown.length]=mycountdown;
function checkPlural(noun,value){
 noun=((value==1)||(value==0))?noun:(noun+="s");
 return noun;
}

function updateDisplay(text,id){
 var tag=document.getElementById(id);
 if (tag.firstChild)
  tag.firstChild.nodeValue=text;
 else {
  textNode=document.createTextNode(text);
  tag.appendChild(textNode);
 }
 return;
}
function doCountdown(){
 for (i=0;i<myCountdown.length;i++){
  if (!myCountdown[i].expired){
   var currentDate=new Date();
   var eventDate=myCountdown[i].eventDate;
   var timeLeft=new Date();
   timeLeft=eventDate-currentDate;
   daysLeft=Math.floor(timeLeft/86400000);
   hoursLeft=Math.floor((timeLeft%86400000)/3600000);
   minsLeft=Math.floor(((timeLeft%86400000)%3600000)/60000);
   secsLeft=Math.floor((((timeLeft%86400000)%3600000)%60000)/1000);
   day=checkPlural("day",daysLeft);
   hour=checkPlural("hour",hoursLeft);
   minute=checkPlural("minute",minsLeft);
   second=checkPlural("second",secsLeft);
   if ((daysLeft==0)&&(hoursLeft==0)&&(minsLeft==0)&&(secsLeft==0))
    updateDisplay(myCountdown[i].onevent,myCountdown[i].tagID);
   else {
    if (daysLeft<=-1){
     updateDisplay(myCountdown[i].afterevent,myCountdown[i].tagID);
     myCountdown[i].expired=true;
    } else {
     updateDisplay(daysLeft+" "+day+" "+hoursLeft+" "+hour+" "+minsLeft+" "+minute+
      ", and "+secsLeft+" "+second+" left until "+myCountdown[i].event,myCountdown[i].tagID);
     repeat=true;
    }
   }
  }
 }
 if (repeat) {
  repeat = false;
  window.setTimeout("doCountdown()",1000);
 } else return;
}
function setEventDate(year,month,day,hour,minute,second) {
 this.eventDate=new Date(year,month-1,day,hour,minute,second);
 return;
}
function Countdown() {
 this.tagID = "";
 this.eventDate = new Date();
 this.setEventDate = setEventDate;
 this.event = "";
 this.onevent = "";
 this.afterevent = "";
 this.expired = false;
}
function preload(){
 var a = preload.arguments;
 document.imageArray = new Array(a.length);
 for(var i=0; i<a.length; i++){
  document.imageArray[i] = new Image;
  document.imageArray[i].src = 'images/'+a[i];
 } 
}
function img(n,s){ document[n].src='images/'+s; }