Deploy a updating countdown-to-event web page ?

Questions
, ,
1

I’m very new to the language and as a simple project I’d like to create a Countdown page, so that each time I visit it the page displays the latest information.

I intend a page full of lines such as …
“Days to Dorset 100”

DayCount[{2016, 5, 28}, Now]]

I can CloudDeploy the line above, but how about a full page of, say, 20 such lines?

And will the url provided by CloudDeploy update each time it is accessed?

Thanks for your help,

Garfield

2

asd234sfohdhd63.gif

You need Delayed - it represents an expression whose evaluation is delayed until its value is externally requested. I used seconds so you can see the numbers are different every time you access the page.

CloudDeploy[Delayed[Column[{
Style[ToString[AccountingForm[Round[DateDifference[Now,{2017,1,1},"Second"]]]]<>
" seconds to New Year",20,FontFamily->"American Typewriter"],
Style[ToString[AccountingForm[Round[DateDifference[Now,{2016,12,25},"Second"]]]]<>
" seconds to Christmas",20,FontFamily->"American Typewriter"]
}]]]