Christmas countdown

Assuming that you only care about Christmas Eve of *this year* (and you don't expect it to work properly between Dec 25 and Dec 31, you can use julian_day() from this post.

(Thanks, Travis.ConnectIQ!)

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/2778/week-of-year/27615#27615

var year = ...; // get today's year
var month = ... // get today's month (1-based)
var day = ... // get today's day of the month (1-based)
var julian_today = julian_day(year, month, day);
var julian_xmas_eve = julian_day(year, 12, 24);
var days_remaining = julian_xmas_eve - julian_today;

Of course you can also tweak the code to figure out if it's Dec 25 or later, and calculate the count down for *next year's* Christmas eve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day

www.vcalc.com/.../Gregorian Calendar to Julian Day Number (JDN)

EDIT tweaked code:

var year = ...; // get today's year
var month = ... // get today's month (1-based)
var day = ... // get today's day of the month (1-based)
var julian_today = julian_day(year, month, day);
var julian_xmas_eve = julian_day((month == 12 && day > 24) ? year+1 : year, 12, 24);
var days_remaining = julian_xmas_eve - julian_today;

Thank you, that helped a lot! The first version (count until Christmas eve) works fine.

Then I tried to adapt it but I think I did not get your tweaked code right. So it doesn't work yet (counting after 24th December). Can you explain this code snipped?: var julian_xmas_eve = julian_day((month == 12 && day > 24) ? year+1, year, 12, 24);

Sorry, I had a typo, my bad. It should be:

var julian_xmas_eve = julian_day((month == 12 && day > 24) ? year+1 : year, 12, 24);

The idea is if it's past Dec 24, then count down to next year's Christmas Eve.

Fine, now it works and I understood it proberly!

Thanks a lot :-)!