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Originally Posted by yoav

looking good!
if you get stuck transcribing theGrundle's countdown logic i have it in 2 other languages, although i'm sure he's already got you covered... (theGrundle == godfather of katg apps)

I just poll the events feed and search for a live show, that is in the future. Then I make a NSDate object out of it and ask for time since now. This is fairly snappy and doesn't get tripped up by time zones.

NSDate *eventTime = [formatter dateFromString: feedTime];
			
			timeSince = [eventTime timeIntervalSinceNow];
			
			match1 = [feedTitle rangeOfString:@"Live Show" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch].location != NSNotFound;
			match2 = timeSince > 0;
			
			feedEntryIndex = feedEntryIndex - 1;
		}
		
		int s = 0;
		int m = 0;
		int h = 0;
		int d = 0;
		
		int temp = timeSince;
		
		if (timeSince > 60) {
			s = timeSince % 60;
			timeSince /= 60;
			
			if (timeSince > 60) {
				m = timeSince % 60;
				timeSince /= 60;
				
				if (timeSince > 24) {
					h = timeSince % 24;
					timeSince /= 24;
					d = timeSince;
				} else {
					h = timeSince;
				}
			} else {
				m = timeSince;
			}
		}
		
		timeSince = temp;
		
		days.text = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%d",d];
		hours.text = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%d",h];
		minutes.text = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%d",m];