Notices

Ideally you would have a countdown clock with days, hours, minutes, seconds, and hundredths of seconds using a Nixie tube font. The inclusion of hundredths of seconds allows constant motion in the display.

Then you'd add a voice recording to speak each minute: "DD days, HH hours, and MM minutes to Doomsday".

Realistically, let's not and say we did.

I wa also thinking that since the N900 might not have shipped by then have some people from Fremantle jump onto this projet.

Seconds: $ calc \(`date --date=121221 +%s` - `date +%s`\)
Minutes: $ calc \(`date --date=121221 +%s` - `date +%s`\) / 60
Hours: $ calc \(`date --date=121221 +%s` - `date +%s`\) / \(60 \* 60\)
Days: $ calc \(`date --date=121221 +%s` - `date +%s`\) / \(60 \* 60 \* 24\)
Years: $ calc \(`date --date=121221 +%s` - `date +%s`\) / \(60 \* 60 \* 24 \* 365.25\)
Pi: $ pi
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 7
Nonsense

I fully expect, of course, an incredible change in everything come December 21, 2012.

But I don't see how we can have a clock that shows the countdown in hours, let alone minutes or seconds, as all I know to be on the lookout for is: December 21, 2012. If anyone is privy to the precise minute or second, please let us know so that we can adjust our plans accordingly.

Since my expectations are based on Mayan science, I believe the clock should be in synch not with the local time on one's Maemo device, but on whatever time it is in the Mesoamerican highlands, which is Greenwich Mean Time less 6 hours. So let's all get synchronized. I don't want to be just hanging out for 7 hours after Benny1967 ascends or blows up, 6 hours after lcuk reaches enlightenment, or 3 hours after YoDude is teleported. I think all us Maemo-Mayans should blast off together.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09...ndar-Ends-2220

Everyone else already have an app for this: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...c9ea851cee2c5b

Sigh, I should had know better than buying a device supported by a bunch of treehugging liberal hippie-trekkies!!

Wait....aren't you the people who should be developing this?
It's...anti-government you know

@Firebird.

Wilson Tang as in iCNET-Wilson-Tang?

Nope. (filler)

Why not, it's actually the rumored release date for the Nokia N1020, coming out just after the N1000 somewhere in 2011... ;-)

Ideally the app should recognize when it hits -1 (Mayan time), breath a sigh of relief, and then start counting down to the Unix apocalypse:

03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem