The SFD Countdown

Raise awareness about SFD by displaying our countdown

Adding the SFD countdown timer to your website is easy! We currently support 9 languages and all the world time zones. So imagine you want to use the Portuguese counter while being located somewhere in Latin America on UTC-4:30, and expect to have something like this:




The code to use will look like this:

<a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC-4.30-pt.png" border="0" width="190" height="200" alt="Celebra o SFD 2011 no Sábado, 17 de Septembro!"></a>

Now imagine you would like to use that same counter in English and on GMT+8:45. The new countdown timer will display like this:




and the updated code will be:

<a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/"><img src="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/countdown/banner1-UTC+8.45-en.png" border="0" width="190" height="200" alt="Celebrate SFD with us on September 17!"></a>

We hope those two examples will make it sufficiently clear, if not do not hesitate to contact us and ask questions. You can find more information on our wiki page here: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown/.
Current values for languages are:

• en: English
• zh_CN: Chinese (simplified)
• zh_TW: Chinese (traditional)
• cs: Czech
• fr: French
• gl: Galician
• de: German
• kh: Khmer
• ko: Korean
• fa: Persian
• pt: Portuguese
• sr: Serbian Cyrillic
• sh: Serbian Latin
• si: Sinhalese
• es: Spanish

Time zones values are:

• -12, -11, -10, -9.30, -9, -8, -7, -6, -5, -4.30, -4, -3.30, -3, -2, -1, +0, +1, +2, +3, +3.30, +4, +4.30, +5, +5.30, +5.45, +6, +6.30, +7, +8, +8.45, +9, +9.30, +10, +10.30, +11, +11.30, +12, +12.45, +13, +14

A big thank you goes to all the translators who have helped us to create the necessary png files for each language!