Hi i'm working on a site that is going to have a counter on it that shows the
amount of people being put in jail for marijuana crimes, from the starting date
of posting the site.
So lets say i put the site up today, starting from when it is posted on the
web, i want the counter to start at 0 and every 42 seconds add 1 to the total.
So that even if people aren't viewing the site, it is adding to the total, and
over time the number will become huge.

anyone know how i can do this in flash??
thanks

Leif

See how many seconds has passed between the START date and NOW date. Then you
can determine the number of people put in jail...

for example:

startDate = new Date(2005, 0, 1); // January 1, 2005
onEnterFrame = function () {
endDate = new Date(); // Today
seconds = (endDate-startDate)/1000;
jail = Math.floor(seconds/42);
trace("There have been "+jail+" people who have gone to jail for marijuana
crimes");
};

It would work much better if you could get the time from the server...