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So I'm trying to make a countdown timer in this project until it reaches January 5, 2022. But a common problem that's occurring is when a certain part of the timer counts to zero and loops backward, it sets it to something like 99, and then if it changes again, it becomes 88, etc. It's hard to explain, but it's the best I can do.

Well, I was thinking of using the timer block but I couldn't think of anything. but I have a different idea.

when green flag clicked
set [Time v] to [10]
forever
wait (0.01) secs
change [Time v] by (-0.01)
end

And in a separate blockchain,

forever
if <<(Time) = [0]> or <(Time) < [0]>> then
set [Time v] to [0]
end
end

Use

(days since 2000)

have a look at this thread https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/563289/

I'm not really good with this kind of stuff, and you seem to be an advanced Scratched, but my best guess is that if you're using a timer variable, you don't have code to loop a place value properly. If I could take a look at the code, I might be able to help.

Your problem is that if, for example, 60 - current second returns a single digit number then the costume for the first digit of the two-digit display is set to the first digit of the seconds value. So instead of 59 you get 99, instead of 58 you get 88 and so on. Simplify the code for the first digit since if 60-seconds is less than 10 you just want to display 0 for the first digit. In fact the first digit's costume number is just floor ((60-seconds)/10) - no need for anything fancier than that.

The second digit is actually just (60 - seconds) mod 10 so again no need for if/else blocks.

deck26 wrote:

Your problem is that if, for example, 60 - current second returns a single digit number then the costume for the first digit of the two-digit display is set to the first digit of the seconds value. So instead of 59 you get 99, instead of 58 you get 88 and so on. Simplify the code for the first digit since if 60-seconds is less than 10 you just want to display 0 for the first digit. In fact the first digit's costume number is just floor ((60-seconds)/10) - no need for anything fancier than that.

The second digit is actually just (60 - seconds) mod 10 so again no need for if/else blocks.

Thanks! It seems to be fixed now