SonicSue caused me to review my old CountDown program and in doing so I found and corrected a bug - thanks SonicSue!
Perhaps my old program addresses SonicSue's question (
http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/share...own-timer.html). It does allow the user to enter dates/times well into the future. Perhaps the code could be easily adapted to meet SonicSue's needs.