creating a server time based countdown
 

Does anyone know how to do this.

I know you can use smarty php to display the time from the server (i. not use javascript which will show the time based on the customers PC clock) with {$smarty.now|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"}

but does anyone know how to do a countdown to a specific time or date.

For example we have a sale that will end at midnight tonight

so we want to display

This sale will end in: hh:mm

any ideas

try this

http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=TimeSincePlugin